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Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema
Becoming Visible
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2013
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Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as Philadelphia, Boys Don’t Cry, and Brokeback Mountain.
In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer teens, and others. Throughout, this book continually reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of “normalcy,” “deviance,” and “social otherness,” in ways that frequently have real—and sometimes detrimental—effects on actual people.
Covering a range of films, including From Here to Eternity, The Boys in the Band, Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Point Break, The Doom Generation, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinsey, Brokeback Mountain, Transamerica, and Shortbus, this book shows not only how much has changed since the mid-20th century, but also how much has remained the same. Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema provides perceptive insights for students and academics interested in film history, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-9117-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-9119-7
Publisher
Scarecrow, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
183
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 The Love Between Warden and Prew That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Containing Homosexuality as Subtext in From Here to Eternity No access
2 Gay Male Spectatorship, Textual Flexibility, and Mainstream American Cinema No access
3 “Out of the Closets and into the Shadows”: Cruising with the Boys in the Band No access
4 Queering the Teen Movie: Exploring Groundbreaking Representations of Nonheterosexual Adolescents in Gregg Araki’s Teen-Apocalypse Trilogy No access
5 Gay Men, Self-Representation, and AIDS Documentaries No access
6 When Style Becomes Substance: The Form and Function of a Rap Aesthetic in the AIDS Movie Chocolate Babies No access
7 Increasing Visi(bi)lity: Bisexual Men in Contemporary U.S. Cinema No access
8 Transamerican Cinema: Representing Gender Dysphoria on Film No access
9 Retrograde Storytelling or Queer Cinematic Triumph? The (Not So) Groundbreaking Qualities of the Film Brokeback Mountain No access
10 Back to the Future: Queer Representations and the Films of John Cameron Mitchell No access
Bibliography No access Pages 149 - 156
Queer Filmography No access Pages 157 - 166
Index No access Pages 167 - 182
About the Author No access Pages 183 - 183
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