| Description |
viii, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Summary |
"In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: searching for Bob Elkin -- Personal visions. Minutes of the future: Francois Ozon's A summer dress -- To bend without breaking: bisexuality and adaptation in the films of Andre Tichin -- Tentative, tender ... and trendy? Gregg Araki's Teen trilogy -- Rock star bisexuality in Todd Haynes' Velvet goldmine -- For whom the bi tolls: Craig Lucas' The dying Gaul and Ozon's Water drops on burning rocks -- Alone and with others. Making the man: the bisexual hero -- Illegible patriarchies: bisexualizing the family -- Fazes and mazes: inside the triangle -- Matters of love and death. The schoolboy crush and its ambiguous object -- Turning it on and off: "bi for pay" -- Allegories of AIDS -- In his wake: the strange power of the dead bisexual -- At the limits of heterosexuality: the woman's viewpoint in Anatomy of hell -- Conclusion: "it's all good." |
| Subject |
Bisexuality in motion pictures.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Men in motion pictures.
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| ISBN |
9780786461608 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0786461608 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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