Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema
Subtitle: Becoming Visible
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: Apr 04, 2013
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780810891173
Description: "Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer teens, and others. Throughout, this book continually reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of 'normalcy,' 'deviance,' and 'social otherness,' in ways that frequently have real--and sometimes detrimental--effects on actual people. Covering a range of films, including From Here to Eternity, The Boys in the Band, Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Point Break, The Doom Generation, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinsey, Brokeback Mountain, Transamerica, and Shortbus ..."--From publisher description.
Notes: Source title: Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible