Male bisexuality in current cinema
Subtitle: images of growth, rebellion and survival
By: Justin Vicari
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780786461608
Subjects: Homosexuality in motion pictures; Men in motion pictures; Bisexuality in motion pictures
Description: "In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: searching for Bob Elkin; title: Personal visions. Minutes of the future: Francois Ozon's A summer dress; title: To bend without breaking: bisexuality and adaptation in the films of Andre Tichin; title: Tentative, tender ... and trendy? Gregg Araki's Teen trilogy; title: Rock star bisexuality in Todd Haynes' Velvet goldmine; title: For whom the bi tolls: Craig Lucas' The dying Gaul and Ozon's Water drops on burning rocks; title: Alone and with others. Making the man: the bisexual hero; title: Illegible patriarchies: bisexualizing the family; title: Fazes and mazes: inside the triangle; title: Matters of love and death. The schoolboy crush and its ambiguous object; title: Turning it on and off: "bi for pay"; title: Allegories of AIDS; title: In his wake: the strange power of the dead bisexual; title: At the limits of heterosexuality: the woman's viewpoint in Anatomy of hell; title: Conclusion: "it's all good."