Overview

B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, filmmakers, and activists.As a critic, curator, journalist, and scholar, Rich has been inextricably linked to the New Queer Cinema from its inception. This volume presents her new thoughts on the topic, as well as bringing together the best of her writing on the NQC. She follows this cinematic movement from its origins in the mid-1980s all the way to the present in essays and articles directed at a range of audiences, from readers of academic journals to popular glossies and weekly newspapers. She presents her insights into such NQC pioneers as Derek Jarman and Isaac Julien and investigates such celebrated films as Go Fish, Brokeback Mountain, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and Milk. In addition to exploring less-known films and international cinemas (including Latin American and French films and videos), she documents the more recent incarnations of the NQC on screen, on the web, and in art galleries.

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Author:   B. Ruby Rich
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780822354116

ISBN 10:   082235411
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   26 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi Introduction xv Part I. Origins, Festivals, Audiences 1. Before the Beginning: Lineages and Preconceptions 3 2. The New Queer Cinema: Director's Cut 16 3. Collision, Catastrophe, Celebration: The Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals and Their Publics 33 4. What's a Good Gay Film? 40 Part II. Bulletins From the Front 5. The King of Queer: Derek Jarman 49 6. True Stories of Forbidden Love 53 7. Goings and Comings, the Go Fish Way 58 8. Historical Fictions, Modern Desires: The Watermelon Woman 66 9. Channeling Domestic Violence: In the Den with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon 72 10. The I.K.U. Experience: The Shu-Lea Cheang Phenomenon 76 11. Jonathan Caouette: What in Tarnation? 81 12. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Maladies 88 13. Beyond Doom: Gregg Araki's Mysterious Films 92 14. A Walk in the Clouds: Julian Hernandez 96 Part III. Genre Meets Gender 15. Lethal Lesbians: The Cinematic Inscription of Murderous Desire 103 16. Queering the Biopic Documentary 123 17. A Queer and Present Danger: The Death of New Queer Cinema? 130 Part IV. Queering a New Latin American Cinema 18. Preface to a History 141 19. Refashioning Mexican Screen Sexuality: Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc 145 20. Gay and Lesbian Traces 151 21. Mexico in the Forties: Reclaiming a Gender Pioneer 156 22. Revolution, Sexuality, and the Paradox of Queer Film in Cuba 159 23. Queering the Social Landscape 167 Part V. Expansions and Reversals 24. Ang Lee's Lonesome Cowboys 185 25. Itty Bitty Titty Committee: Free Radicals and the Feminist Carnivalesque 202 26. Queer Nouveau: From Morality Tales to Mortality Tales in Ozon, Techine, Collard 214 27. Got Milk? Gus Van Sant's Encounter with History 236 Conclusion 261 Filmography 285 Bibliography 297 Credits 307 Index 309

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The greatest writer on New Queer Cinema! Buy Rich's book! It's amazing! --Gus Van Sant

Author Information

B. Ruby Rich is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written for scores of publications, from Signs, GLQ, Film Quarterly, and Cinema Journal to The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The Guardian (UK). She has served as juror and curator for the Sundance and Toronto International Film Festivals and for major festivals in Germany, Mexico, Australia, and Cuba. The recipient of awards from Yale University, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and Frameline, Rich is the author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, also published by Duke University Press.

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