Queer males in contemporary cinema : becoming visible / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Kylo-Patrick R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people in motion pictures.

AIDS (Disease) in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xii, 183 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : The Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Summary:

Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as Philadelphia, Boys Don't Cry, and Brokeback Mountain. In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-twentieth to the early twenty-first century. Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer teens, and others. Throughout, this book reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of "normalcy," "deviance," and "social otherness" in ways that frequently have real-and sometimes detrimental-effects on actual people. Covering a range of films, including From Here to Eternity, The Boys in the Band, Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Point Break, The Doom Generation, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinsey Transamerica, and Shortbus, this book shows not only how much has changed since the mid-twentieth century but also how much has remained the same. Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema provides perceptive insights for students and academics interested in film history, cultural studies, gender and media studies, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

The love between Warden and Prew that dare not speak its name: containing homosexuality as subtext in From Here to Eternity

Gay male spectatorship, textual flexibility, and mainstream American cinema

"Out of the closets and into the shadows": cruising with the boys in the band

Queering the teen movie: exploring groundbreaking representations of non-heterosexual adolescents in Gregg Araki's teen-apocalypse trilogy

Gay men, self-representation, and AIDS documentaries

When style becomes substance: the form and function of a rap aesthetic in the AIDS movie chocolate babies

Increasing visi(bi)lity: bisexual men in contemporary U.S. cinema

Transamerican cinema: representing gender dysphoria on film

Retrograde storytelling or queer cinematic triumph? the (not so) groundbreaking qualities of the film Brokeback Mountain

Back to the future: queer representations and the films of John Cameron Mitchell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9780810891173

0810891174

9780810891180

0810891182

OCLC:

823209415