Queer Screen A Screen Reader [Paperback]

Queer Screen: A Screen Readerbrings together a selection of key articles on queer cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal, Screen, with new introductory editorial material from Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street.

Queer Screenfeatures scholarship which has contributed to the emergence of queer theory in the field of screen studies during the last fifteen years, demonstrating how writers in Screen have contributed to developments in queer theory as it relates to a wide range of popular and experimental films and videos.

The book considers a wide range of case studies including popular films such as Boys Dont Cry, Alien Resurrection, Brief Encounter, Bound, and Rope, as well as experimental films and videos by artists such as Richard Fung, Ulrike Ottinger, Sheila McLaughlin and Derek Jarman.

Introduction: Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street  1. Queering Film Theory  Teresa de LauretisGuerrilla in the midst: womens cinema in the 80s  Andy MedhurstThat special thrill: Brief Encounter, homosexuality and authorship  2. Queering Psychoanalysis and Technologies of Gender   Ellis HansonTechnology, paranoia and the queer voice  Jackie StaceyShe is not herself: the deviant relations of Alien Resurrection  Lee WallaceContinuous sex: the editing of homosexuality in Bound and Rope  3. Race, Desire and Queer Film   Kristen WhisselRacialized spectacle, exchange relations, and the Western in Joanna dArc of Mongolia  Julia ErhartFrom Nazi whore to good German mother: revisiting resistance in
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