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Overview""Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image"" is one of the first collections to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women. The contributors debate the practice of lesbian and queer film-making, from the queer cinema of Monika Treut to the work of lesbian film-makers. They explore the pleasures and problems of lesbian spectatorship, both in mainstream Hollywood films including ""Aliens"" and ""Red Sonja"", and in independent cinema from ""She Must be Seeing Things"" to ""Salmonberries"" and ""Desert Hearts"". The authors tackle tricky questions: can a film such as ""Strictly Ballroom"" be both pleasurably camp and heterosexist? Is it okay to drool over dyke icons like Sigourney Weaver and kd Lang? What makes a film lesbian, or queer, or even post-queer? What about showing sex on screen? And why do lesbian screen romances hardly ever have happy endings? ""Immortal, Invisible"" is illustrated with a selection of images from film and television texts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tamsin WiltonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780415107259ISBN 10: 0415107253 Pages: 252 Publication Date: 19 January 1995 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Plates Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: On Invisibility and Mortality 1. What is a Nice Lesbian Like You, Doing in a Film Like This? 2. The Meaning of Treut 3. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit: Reaching Audiences Other Texts Cannot Reach 4. Salmonberries: Consuming kd lang 5. Sex in the Summer of '88 6. `If You Don't Play, You Can't Win': Desert Hearts and the Lesbian Romance Film 7. Portrait of a Production 8. The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister 9. On Not Being Lady Macbeth: Some (Troubled) Thoughts on Lesbian Spectatorship 10. Girl's Camp? The Politics of Parody 11. Looking at Pumping Iron II: The Women 12. Desire and Design - Ripley Undressed 13. Interview with Andrea Weiss and Greta SchillerReviews"""This timely collection illustrates the richness of contemporary lesbian thought. Brilliantly negotiating and opening up a new space within and between feminist and queer theory, it illuminates not just the lesbian representations of recent years, but the centrality of lesbianism to all film images. Encompassing production and reception as well the films in their own right, the whole collection is characterized by clarity and sophistication of thought, enthusiasm and pleasure in film and inspiring intellectual energy.."" -Richard Dyer, author of ""Now You See It ...""this work is invaluable for any theatre or film scholar grappling with questions surrounding queer studies and feminism and the position of a lesbian subject within each theoretical and political construct...adds some interesting new voices to the conversation about queerness, feminism, and representation.."" -""Theatre Insight, Jules Odendahl ...""a rich group of essays that together makes a substantial contribution to a greatly underaddressed area in film studies, and indeed in theoretical circles at large.."" -""Journal of the History of Sexuality" This timely collection illustrates the richness of contemporary lesbian thought. Brilliantly negotiating and opening up a new space within and between feminist and queer theory, it illuminates not just the lesbian representations of recent years, but the centrality of lesbianism to all film images. Encompassing production and reception as well the films in their own right, the whole collection is characterized by clarity and sophistication of thought, enthusiasm and pleasure in film and inspiring intellectual energy.. <br>-Richard Dyer, author of Now You See It <br>... this work is invaluable for any theatre or film scholar grappling with questions surrounding queer studies and feminism and the position of a lesbian subject within each theoretical and political construct...adds some interesting new voices to the conversation about queerness, feminism, and representation.. <br>- Theatre Insight, Jules Odendahl <br>... a rich group of essays that together makes a substantial contribution to a greatly underaddressed area in film studies, and indeed in theoretical circles at large.. <br>- Journal of the History of Sexuality <br> ""This timely collection illustrates the richness of contemporary lesbian thought. Brilliantly negotiating and opening up a new space within and between feminist and queer theory, it illuminates not just the lesbian representations of recent years, but the centrality of lesbianism to all film images. Encompassing production and reception as well the films in their own right, the whole collection is characterized by clarity and sophistication of thought, enthusiasm and pleasure in film and inspiring intellectual energy.."" -Richard Dyer, author of ""Now You See It ...""this work is invaluable for any theatre or film scholar grappling with questions surrounding queer studies and feminism and the position of a lesbian subject within each theoretical and political construct...adds some interesting new voices to the conversation about queerness, feminism, and representation.."" -""Theatre Insight, Jules Odendahl ...""a rich group of essays that together makes a substantial contribution to a greatly underaddressed area in film studies, and indeed in theoretical circles at large.."" -""Journal of the History of Sexuality Author InformationTamsin Wilton is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy at the University of the West of England, where she also teaches Women’s Studies and Lesbian Studies. 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