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Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film (Series Q) by Ellis Hanson; Doty Alexander; Villarejo Amy; Burns Bonnie; Miller D A; Hanson Ellis; Savoy Eric; Walton Jean; Ellis Jim; Edelman Lee; Tinkcom Matthew; Elleray Michelle; Cohan Steven is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the “politics of representation” has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to __Out Takes__ employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship.The essays examine a wide array of films, including __Calamity Jane__, __Rear Window,__ __The Hunger__, __Heavenly Creatures__, and __Bound__ , and discuss such figures as Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alfred Hitchcock. Divided into three sections, the first part reconsiders the construction of masculinity and male homoerotic desire—especially with respect to the role of women—in classic cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The second section offers a deconstructive consideration of lesbian film spectatorship and lesbian representation. Part three looks at the historical trajectory of independent queer cinema, including works by H.D., Kenneth Anger, and Derek Jarman. By exploring new approaches to the study of sexuality in film, __Out Ta

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Author

Ellis Hanson; Doty Alexander; Villarejo Amy; Burns Bonnie; Miller D A; Hanson Ellis; Savoy Eric; Walton Jean; Ellis Jim; Edelman Lee; Tinkcom Matthew; Elleray Michelle; Cohan Steven

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822379157

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science