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   Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Films » Read Now

   by Robert Lang. 380 pgs.

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   Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of...

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   Until Masculine Interests not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of the movies is to define different types of masculinity, and to either valorize or criticize these forms. Focusing on several films -- primarily The Lion King, The Most Dangerous Game, The Outlaw, Kiss Me Deadly, Midnight Cowboy, Innerspace, My Own Private Idaho, the Batman series, and Jerry Maguire -- Lang questions the way in which American culture distinguishes between homosexual and nonhomosexual forms of male bonding. In arguing for a much more complex recognition of the homosocial continuum, he contends that queer sexuality is far more present in American cinema than is usually acknowledged.

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   Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture » Read Now

   by Corey K. Creekmur, Alexander Doty. 536 pgs.

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   ...Madchen in Uniform in pieces that consider both these films' historical contexts...masculinity, and homosexuality. Stars and directors...Screening the Sexes: Homosexuality...
   
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   The Bent Lens: A World Guide to Gay & Lesbian Film » Read Now

   by Lisa Daniel, Claire Jackson. 575 pgs.

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   "The definitive international guide to gay, lesbian and queer film and video."
   
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   In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America » Read Now

   by Robert J. Corber. 264 pgs.

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   ...psychoanalytic approach to the films Hitchcock made in the postwar period...politicization of homosexuality and lesbianism...psychoanalytic approach to his films, I want to...
   
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   Imps of the Perverse: Gay Monsters in Film » Read Now

   by Michael William Saunders. 154 pgs.

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   Hollywood movies often portray gay people as being in some sense monstrous. This volume focuses on several filmmakers who have used the trope of the homosexual as monster in a way that subverts traditional cinema. Their movies reveal that the monster can be powerful and attractive, thereby showing...

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   Hollywood movies often portray gay people as being in some sense monstrous. This volume focuses on several filmmakers who have used the trope of the homosexual as monster in a way that subverts traditional cinema. Their movies reveal that the monster can be powerful and attractive, thereby showing gay people a way to claim power from being thought of as outcasts and obviating the notion of "fitting in."

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   Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Chap. 2 "The Queer Career of Jim Crow Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema") » Read Now

   by Siobhan B. Somerville. 260 pgs.

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   Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B...

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   Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was "invented" as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color line", the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality.

   At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public's attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact,inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and "deviance" were sexual used to reinforce each other's terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis's late-nineteenth-century work on "sexual inversion", the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.

   Queering the Color Line will have broadappeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.

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   Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (Part 1 "Film Noir and the Political Economy of Cold War Masculinity") » Read Now

   by Robert J. Corber. 246 pgs.

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   Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on...

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   Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus. Combining readings of novels, plays, and films of the period with historical research into the national security state, the growth of the suburbs, and postwar consumer culture, Corber examines how gay men resisted the "organization man" model of masculinity that rose to dominance in the wake of the Second World War.

   By exploring the representation of gay men in film noir, Corber suggests that even as this Hollywood genre reinforced homophobic stereotypes, it legitimized the gay male "gaze". He emphasizes how film noir's introduction of homosexual characters countered the national "project" to render gay men invisible, and marked a deep subversion of the Cold War mentality. Corber then considers the work of gay male writers Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and James Baldwin, demonstrating how these authors declined to represent homosexuality as a discrete subculture and instead promoted a model of political solidarity rooted in the shared experience of oppression.

   Homosexuality in Cold War America reveals that the ideological critique of the dominant culture made by gay male authors of the 1950s laid the foundation for the gay liberation movement of the following decade. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including students and scholars in the fields of American literature, film, and gaystudies.

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   Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism (Chap. 10 "Desert Hearts: Betting on Lesbian Love" and Chap. 11 "The Crying Game: Loving in Ignorance") » Read Now

   by Thomas E. Wartenberg. 254 pgs.

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   In Unlikely Couples: Transgressive Love, Social Criticism, & the Movies, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about "unlikely couples" (a mismatched romantic union viewed as...

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   In Unlikely Couples: Transgressive Love, Social Criticism, & the Movies, Thomas E. Wartenberg directly challenges the view that narrative cinema inherently supports the dominant social interests by examining the way popular films about "unlikely couples" (a mismatched romantic union viewed as inappropriate, often due to differences in race, gender, or class) explore, expose, & often criticize societal attitudes, boundaries, & prejudices. The films under consideration: Romeo & Juliet, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Pygmalion, It Happened One Night, Pretty Woman, White Palace, Desert Hearts, Mississippi Masala, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Jungle Fever, & The Crying Game, are examined both individually & as a whole to illustrate the way in which the genre either endorses or criticizes a view of its central couple.

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   A Wall on the Lesbian Continuum: Polysemy and Fried Green Tomatoes, in Women's Studies in Communication » Read Now

   by Naomi R. Rockler. 17 pgs.

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   ...lesbians in Hollywood films historically...codes" of homosexuality could interpret...pre-Stonewall films provided...signs of homosexuality in Hollywood...heterosexuality...
   
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    'Bound' and Invested: Lesbian Desire and Hollywood Ethnography, in Film Criticism » Read Now

    by Jean Noble. 21 pgs.

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    ...hegemony. For the image of women in these films ... the struggle may be between...Vito. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. Revised Edition...Parker...
    
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    Dancing Queen? Feminist and Gay Male Spectatorship in Three Recent Films from Australia, in Film Criticism » Read Now

    by John Champagne. 23 pgs.

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    ...of these films as themselves...material in at least...evidence of his homosexuality. (Whether...evidence" of homosexuality, evidence encoded in the interview...of these...
    
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    Manifestations of Masculinities: Mad Max and the Lure of the Forbidden Zone, in Journal of Australian Studies » Read Now

    by Rebecca Johinke. 8 pgs.

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    ...history. Classic bikie films such as The Wild One...bikies, while interesting in its own right, is not...have homosexuality amongst some of the members...public binary...
    
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    Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema » Read Now

    by Raz Yosef. 204 pgs.

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    In Beyond Flesh, Raz Yosef explores Israeli cinema's role in the creation of national identity and the complex ways the marginalization of queerness became necessary to that goal. Zionism was not only a political and ideological program but also a sexual one. The liberation of Jews and creation of a...

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    In Beyond Flesh, Raz Yosef explores Israeli cinema's role in the creation of national identity and the complex ways the marginalization of queerness became necessary to that goal. Zionism was not only a political and ideological program but also a sexual one. The liberation of Jews and creation of a new nation were closely intertwined with a longing for the redemption and normalization of the Jewish male body. That body had to be rescued from anti-Semitic, scientific-medical discourse associating it with disease, madness, degeneracy, sexual perversity, and femininity-even with homosexuality. The Zionist movement was intent on transforming the very nature of European Jewish masculinity as it had existed in the diaspora. Zionist/Israeli films expressed this desire through visual and narrative tropes, enforcing the image of the hypermasculine colonialist-explorer and militaristic nation-builder, an image dependent on the homophobic repudiation of the "feminine" within men. Yosef offers this criticalaccount of,the construction of masculinities and queerness in Israeli cinema and culture as a model for the investigation of the role of male sexualities within the constitution of national culture in general. He challenges the tendency within dominant critical discussions to treat race, sexuality, and nationalism separately.

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    The Performance of Queer Masculinity in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, in Film Criticism » Read Now

    by Michael John Pinfold. 8 pgs.

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    ...films themselves and of the realities that the films purport to envision. This technique in turn complicates a clear understanding of...intimating that "there are...
    
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    "I Thought You Knew!": Performing the Penis, the Phallus, and Otherness in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, in Film Criticism » Read Now

    by Shantanu Duttaahmed. 13 pgs.

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    ...Jordans direction in the printed script...194). Given the films obsession with what...investment is proof of the films lack of a secret...Bernheimer says that in response...
    
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    Vision Machines: Cinema, Literature, and Sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-93 (Part II "Cuban Homosexualities") » Read Now

    by Paul Julian Smith. 180 pgs.

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    ...insipid shadow of its former self in films such as Solass lengthy literary...political order p. 139 . What these films have in common, then, is a masking of gender...Laws...