Immortal Invisible

<p><em>Immortal Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image</em> is the first collection 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 Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller. They explore the pleasures and problems of lesbian spectatorship both in mainstream Hollywood films including <em>Aliens</em> and <em>Red Sonja</em> and in independent cinema from <em>She Must be Seeing Things</em> to <em>Salmonberries</em> and <em>Desert Hearts</em>. The authors tackle tricky questions: can a film such as <em>Strictly Ballroom</em> be both pleasurably camp and heterosexist? Is it ok 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? <em>Immortal Invisible</em> is splendidly illustrated with a selection of images from film and television texts.</p>