New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813534860 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
MICHELE AARON is lecturer in film studies at Brunel University, London, where she also co-edits the on-line journal EnterText. She is the editor of The Body's Perilous Pleasures: Dangerous Desires and Contemporary Culture.
It is the first full-length study of recent developments in queer cinema that combines indispensable discussions of central issues with exciting new work by key writers.. Chapters address the work of pivotal directors (such as Todd Haynes and Gregg Araki) and salient films (including Paris is Burning and Boys Don’t Cry), as well as unconventional and non-Anglo-American work (experimental filmmaking and third world cinema).With a critical eye to its uneasy relationship to the mainstream, New Queer Cinema explores the aesthetic, sociocultural, political, and, necessarily, commercial investments of the movement. Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, “New Queer Cinema” has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audiences to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish, and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema and to the infiltration of “queer” images and themes into the mainstream. Why did this shift take place? Was it p
"New Queer Cinema is a very worthwhile, timely project, and Aaron's informed critical perspective is evidence throughout."
Dangerous Transphobia. Transphobic garbage. They killed Brandon Teena because they believed, as this book states, that he was "in disguise."Cis authors need to stay away from trans people. We can talk about ourselves. You're not helping. At all.. "A good read for anyone into Queer Cinema" according to Tim Cavale. A good read for anyone into Queer Cinema.