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Author Vicari, Justin, 1968-

Title Male bisexuality in current cinema : images of growth, rebellion and survival / Justin Vicari.

Publication Info. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2011]
©2011

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 Moore Stacks  PN1995.9.B57 V53 2011    Available  ---
Description viii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 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.
Bisexuality in motion pictures.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
Men in motion pictures.
Men in motion pictures.
ISBN 9780786461608 paperback alkaline paper
0786461608 paperback alkaline paper