Rich New Queer Cinema

The Director's Cut
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9969-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

B. Ruby Rich has been involved with queer filmmaking—as a critic, film-festival curator, publicist, scholar, and champion—since it emerged in the 1980s. This volume collects the best of her writing on New Queer Cinema from its beginning to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rich, B. Ruby

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xv

Part I. Origins, Festivals, Audiences

1. Before the Beginning: Lineages and Preconceptions 3

2. The New Queer Cinema: Director's Cut 16

3. Collision, Catastrophe, Celebration: The Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals and Their Publics 33

4. What's a Good Gay Film? 40

Part II. Bulletins From the Front

5. The King of Queer: Derek Jarman 49

6. True Stories of Forbidden Love 53

7. Goings and Comings, the Go Fish Way 58

8. Historical Fictions, Modern Desires: The Watermelon Woman 66

9. Channeling Domestic Violence: In the Den with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon 72

10. The I.K.U. Experience: The Shu-Lea Cheang Phenomenon 76

11. Jonathan Caouette: What in Tarnation? 81

12. Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Maladies 88

13. Beyond Doom: Gregg Araki's Mysterious Films 92

14. A Walk in the Clouds: Julián Hernández 96

Part III. Genre Meets Gender

15. Lethal Lesbians: The Cinematic Inscription of Murderous Desire 103

16. Queering the Biopic Documentary 123

17. A Queer and Present Danger: The Death of New Queer Cinema? 130

Part IV. Queering a New Latin American Cinema

18. Preface to a History 141

19. Refashioning Mexican Screen Sexuality: Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc 145

20. Gay and Lesbian Traces 151

21. Mexico in the Forties: Reclaiming a Gender Pioneer 156

22. Revolution, Sexuality, and the Paradox of Queer Film in Cuba 159

23. Queering the Social Landscape 167

Part V. Expansions and Reversals

24. Ang Lee's Lonesome Cowboys 185

25. Itty Bitty Titty Committee: Free Radicals and the Feminist Carnivalesque 202

26. Queer Nouveau: From Morality Tales to Mortality Tales in Ozon, Téchiné, Collard 214

27. Got Milk? Gus Van Sant's Encounter with History 236

Conclusion 261

Filmography 285

Bibliography 297

Credits 307

Index 309

Über Autor(innen)

B. Ruby Rich is Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written for scores of publications, from Signs, GLQ, Film Quarterly, and Cinema Journal to The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Nation, and The Guardian (UK). She has served as juror and curator for the Sundance and Toronto International Film Festivals and for major festivals in Germany, Mexico, Australia, and Cuba. The recipient of awards from Yale University, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, and Frameline, Rich is the author of Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the Feminist Film Movement, also published by Duke University Press.