Queer Cinema The Film Reader

<p><em>Queer Cinema The Film Reader </em>examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social historical and industrial contexts. </p><p>Clearly divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas the Reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema. The four sections discuss:</p><ul> <li>Authorship - examining the role of sexuality in the work of queer filmmakers such as George Cukor Dorothy Arzner Barbara Hammer and the directors of New Queer Cinema</li> <li>Forms - exploring how genres such as the horror film the musical film <em>noir</em> and the animated film construct queer cinematic spaces</li> <li>Camp - looking at how this reception strategy and mode of textual production initially practised by pre-Stonewall queers retains its critical charge even in contemporary mainstream popular culture</li> <li>Reception - considering three specific historical case-studies of how queer fans have interacted with media texts from Judy Garland to <em>Star Trek</em>.</li> </ul><p>The Reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory and allows students and scholars of the subject to draw their own conclusions in their studies.</p>