The Brokeback book : from story to cultural phenomenon / edited by William R. Handley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handley, William R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brokeback Mountain (Motion picture).

Proulx, Annie. Brokeback Mountain.

Proulx, Annie.

Physical Description:

xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction: the pasts and futures of a story and a film / William R. Handley

Gay or universal story? initial debates and cultural contexts. Men in love: is Brokeback Mountain a gay film? / David Leavitt

An affair to remember / Daniel Mendelsohn

Response to "An affair to remember" / James Schamus

The magic mountain / Andrew Holleran

Backs unbroken: Ang Lee, forbearance, and the closet / Mun-Hou Lo

Miles to go and promises to keep : homophobic culture and gay civil rights. Back to the ranch ag'in: Brokeback Mountain and gay civil rights / James Morrison

Breaking no ground: why Crash won, why Brokeback lost, and how the academy chose to play it safe / Kenneth Turan

"Jack, I swear": some promises to gay culture from mainstream Hollywood / Chris Freeman

"Better two than one": the shirts from Brokeback Mountain / Gregory Hinton

American Eden: nature, homophobic violence, and the social imaginary / Colin Carman

West of the closet, fear on the range / Alex Hunt

Adapting "Brokeback Mountain," queering the western. Interview between Michael Silverblatt and Annie Proulx

In the shadow of the tire iron / Alan Dale

Adapting Annie Proulx's story to the mainstream multiplex / Adam Sonstegard

Not so lonesome cowboys: the queer western / Judith Halberstam

Public responses and cultural appropriations. "One dies, the other doesn't": Brokeback and the blogosphere / Noah Tsika

Making sense of the Brokeback paraphenomenon / David Weiss

Alberta, authenticity, and queer erasure / Jon Davies

Scenes of work and experience in the rural west. Real gay cowboys and Brokeback Mountain / Patricia Nell Warren

Marx on the mountain: pleasure and the laboring body / Vanessa Osborne

Personal borders / Martin Aguilera

Sympathy, melodrama, and passion. Mother twist: Brokeback Mountain and male melodrama / Susan McCabe

Passion and sympathy in Brokeback Mountain / Calvin Bedient.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780803226647

0803226640

OCLC:

664555777