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> <p><strong>Part One: Auters</strong> 1. Whose Text is it Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auters, and Queer Authorship 2. Physique Cinema, 1945-1969: Hard to Imagine 3. Transgressive Cinema: Lesbian Independent Film 4. The New Queer Cinema, <strong>Part Two: Forms </strong> 5. The Monster and the Homosexual 6. Queer Negotiations of the Hollywood Musical 7. Queer Noir, <strong>Part Three: Camp </strong>8. Camp and the Gay Sensibility 9. Reclaiming the Discourse of Camp, <strong>Part Four: Reception </strong> 10. Judy Garland and Gay Men 11. Finding Community in the Early 1960s: Underground Cinema and Sexual Politics 12. 'Out of the Closet and into the Universe': Queers and <em>Star Trek </em> 13. Reviewing Queer Viewing</p>