Queer Cinema, the Film Reader

Queer Cinema, the Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. 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 Authorship - examining the role of sexuality in the work of queer filmmakers such as George Cukor, Dorothy Arzner, Barbara Hammer, and the directors of New Queer Cinema Forms - exploring how genres such as the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct queer cinematic spaces Camp - looking at how this reception strategy and mode of textual production, initially practised by pre-Stonewall queers, retains its critical charge even in contemporary mainstream popular culture Reception - considering three specific historical case studies of how queer fans have interacted with media texts from Judy Garland to Star Trek. The reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory.

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Part One: Auters: Chapter 1 Whose Text is it Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auters, and Queer Authorship; Chapter 2 Physique Cinema, 1945-1969: Hard to Imagine; Chapter 3 Transgressive Cinema: Lesbian Independent Film; Chapter 4 The New Queer Cinema; Part Two: Forms: Chapter 5 The Monster an the Homosexual; Chapter 6 Queer Negotiations of the Hollywood Musical; Chapter 7 Queer Noir; Part Three: Camp: Chapter 9 Camp and the Gay Sensibility; Chapter 10 Reclaiming the Discourse of Camp; Part Four: Reception: Chapter 11 Judy Garland and Gay Men; Chapter 12 Finding Community in the Early 1960s: Underground Cinema and Sexual Politics; Chapter 13 'Out of the Closet and into the Universe': Queers and Star Trek; Chapter 14 Reviewing Queer Viewing

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