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"The term ""queer cinema"" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of ""queer cinema"" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars.The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film."

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Author:   Ronald Gregg (Senior Lecturer in Film, Senior Lecturer in Film, Columbia University) ,  Amy Villarejo (Professor of Film, Professor of Film, University of California, Los Angeles)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 5.20cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   1.551kg
ISBN:  

9780190877996

ISBN 10:   0190877995
Pages:   864
Publication Date:   23 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Amy Villarejo and Ronald Gregg Defining Queer Cinema: Rethinking Methodology and the Archive 1. After the New Queer Cinema: Intersectionality vs. Fascism B. Ruby Rich 2. Queer Pedagogy Tom Waugh 3. More than Meets the Eye: On Facing without Fully Knowing the Queer Worlds around Us Nick Davis 4. Lesbian Cinephilia and Digital Affordances Patricia White Reexamining the Queer Canon in Silent and Classical Hollywood Film 5. Queer Laughter in the Archives of Silent Film Comedy Maggie Hennefeld 6. Arias for an Untold Want: The Queer Desire of the Diva Film Dolores McElroy 7. ""There's a Rainbow on the River"": The Affordances of Boy Soprano Bobby Breen In 1930s Hollywood Allison McCracken 8. A Duet for Sailors and Pansies: Queer Archival Work and Male Same-Sex Dancing in Follow the Fleet (1936) and other Depression-Era Films David Lugowski 9. This Can't Be Legal? Queer Masculinities in the 1940s Hollywood Musical Steven Cohan European Art Cinema and American Experimental Film Before Stonewall: Remapping the Queer Canon 10. Looking Through the Rear-View Mirror: Queer Inter-Zones in French Cinema 1895-1945 James Williams 11. Trances, Myth, Bachelor Machines, and Abstractions: Queer Experimental Film in the Cold War Era (1943-1962) Juan Antonio Suárez 12. On Marginality: La Dolce Vita's Homosexuals Richard Dyer 13. Teorema's Death Drive Damon Young Methodology and Queer Archives between Stonewall and New Queer Cinema 14. Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Feminist Iconography and Queer Aesthetics Sarah Keller 15. Greener Pastures: Filming Sex and Place at Druid Heights Greg Youmans 16. For Shame!: On the History of Programming Queer ""Bad Objects"" Marc Francis 17. 'A Panorama of Gay Life': Nighthawks and British Queer Cinema in the 1970s Glyn Davis New Queer Cinema and Media: Revolutionizing the Archive 18. Invasion of the Child Snatchers: Pedophilic Seduction in New Queer Cinema Ara Osterweil 19. Mirror Scene: Transgender Aesthetics in The Matrix and Boys Don't Cry Cael M. Keegan 20. Representing Ourselves into Existence: The Cultural, Political, and Aesthetic Work of Transgender Film Festivals in 1990s Laura Horak 21. Making a Scene: Queercore Cinema Curran Nault Creating, Curating, Archiving Post-Stonewall Queer Cinema: First Person Accounts 22. Lavender Images & Poetic Landscapes: My Thirty Years in the Queer Film Ecosystem Jenni Olson 23. Andy and Me (It's Not Real and It's Not Fiction) Tom Kalin 24. VHS Archives, Committed Media Praxis, and ""Queer Cinema"" Alexandra Juhasz Global Queer Cinema 25. Documentary Disclosures: The Emergence of Queer Independent Filmmaking in India Shohini Ghosh 26. Syndromes and a Century: Contemporary Queer Thai Cinema Arnika Fuhrmann 27. Queerly, Hopelessly, Precariously: Reimagining a Queer Politics of Globalization Through Three Taiwan Films Hwa-Jen Tsai 28. Tracing Lesbian Cinema in Latin America Vinodh Venkatesh New Queer Voices, Forms, and Aesthetics 29. Queer Theory and Nontheatrical Films: Perversion in the Public Domain Lauren Pilcher 30. Brother to Brother and the 'Place' of Film in Black Queer History Kara Keeling 31. Excessive Attachments: 21st Century Queer and Trans Video Art in the United States William J. Simmons"

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"Ronald Gregg writes and teaches about queer cinema, classical and contemporary Hollywood, and the impact of globalization and digital technology on recent Hollywood film. He co-edited the Spring 2020 issue of Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media focused on ""Pleasures and Dangers in Adapting and Appropriating Hegemonic Sources."" He has also curated film and video programming for Columbia's Film Program, Yale's Whitney Humanities Center, the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, the South African Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the University of Chicago Lesbian and Gay Studies Project. Amy Villarejo was the Fredric J. Whiton Professor of Humanities at Cornell University, where she taught for many years in the Departments of Performing and Media Arts and Comparative Literature. In 2020, she joined the faculty at UCLA in the renowned School of Theater, Film & Television. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Talking Heads, about televisual authority from the 1980s to the present."

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