| Description |
1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Short cuts - introductions to film studies ; 50
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Short cuts (London, England) ; 50.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-133) and index. |
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Includes filmography (pages 119-124). |
| Contents |
The origins of queer cinema : schoolgirls, vampires and cross-dressers -- Camp : where art meets trash -- Stonewall and the positive identification figure -- New queer cinema : a new aesthetic language -- Gay cowboys, fabulous femmes and global queers. |
| Summary |
"Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. The book traces the representation of gays and lesbians from the sexual liberation movements of the roaring 1920s in Berlin to the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City and the emergence of queer activism and film in the early 1990s. The book explains early tropes of queerness, such as the boarding school or the vampire, and describes the development of camp from 1950s Hollywood to underground art of the late 1960s in New York City. It concludes with an exploration of the contemporary mainstreaming of gay and lesbian films and global queer cinema. Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Gay Cowboys thus offers an introduction to a gay and lesbian film history, but also contributes to an academic discussion about queer subversion of mainstream film."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures. |
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Homosexuality and motion pictures.
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Homosexuality and motion pictures. |
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Gender identity in motion pictures.
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Gender identity in motion pictures. |
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Sex role in motion pictures.
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Sex role in motion pictures. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mennel, Barbara Caroline. Queer cinema 9780231163132 (DLC) 2013363245 (OCoLC)814018780 |
| ISBN |
9780231850209 (electronic book) |
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0231850204 (electronic book) |
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9780231163132 (paperback) |
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0231163134 (paperback) |
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