Reading Brokeback Mountain
Subtitle: essays on the story and the film
By: edited by Jim Stacy
Contributors: Stacy, James, 1936-
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780786430444
Subjects: Proulx, Annie; Brokeback Mountain (Motion picture)
Description: "This collection offers 15 essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its film adaptation from a wide variety of perspectives and academic disciplines"--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index
Table of contents: title: Arcadia and the passionate shepherds of Brokeback Mountain / by Henry Alley; title: Proulx's pastoral : Brokeback Mountain as sacred space / by Ginger Jones; title: Buried in the family plot : the cost of pattern maintenance to Ennis and Jack / by Jim Stacy; title: Love and death in an American story : a "vulgar" reading of Brokeback Mountain / by John Kitterman; title: The "gay film" that wasn't : the heterosexual supplement in Brokeback Mountain / by Lisa Arellano; title: Gay cowboys close to home : Ennis Del Mar on the Q.T. / by Hiram Perez; title: "When this thing grabs hold of us . . ." : spatial myth, rhetoric, and conceptual blending in Brokeback Mountain / by Jen E. Boyle; title: From "nature's love" to natural love : Brokeback Mountain, universal identification, and gay politics / by Xinghua Li; title: Broke(n)back faggots : Hollywood gives queers a Hobson's chioce / by W.C. Harris; title: Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars / by Charles Eliot Mehler; title: Whiteness of another kind of love : letting race and sexuality talk / by Long T. Bui; title: The queerness of country : Brokeback's soundscape / by Noah Tsika; title: Performing "Lonesome cowboy" and "Jack Nasty" : the stars' negotiation of norms and desires / by Jessica L.W. Carey; title: Lessons learned on Brokeback Mountain : expanding the possibilities of American manhood / by John Ibson; title: Love and silence, possibility and penguins / by Jim Stacy