Queer Cinema: The Film ReaderHarry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. Clearly divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the Reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema. The four sections discuss:
The Reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory and allows students and scholars of the subject to draw their own conclusions in their studies. |
Contents
Harry Benshoff The Monster and the Homosexual | 5 |
Queers | 13 |
61 | 184 |
Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman Reviewing Queer Viewing | 209 |
89 | 220 |
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