New queer cinema
Subtitle: the director's cut
By: B. Ruby Rich
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780822354116; 9780822354284
Subjects: Gays in motion pictures; Homosexuality in motion pictures
Description: B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the 'Village Voice' in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, filmmakers, and activists. As a critic, curator, journalist, and scholar, Rich has been inextricably linked to the New Queer Cinema from its inception. This volume presents her new thoughts on the topic, as well as bringing together the best of her writing on the NQC.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the beginning; title: The new queer cinema, expanded version; title: Collision, catastrophe, celebration: the relationship of gay/lesbian film festivals to their publics; title: What's a good gay film?; title: The king of queer : Derek Jarman; title: True stories of forbidden love; title: Goings and comings, the go fish way; title: The watermelon woman: historical fictions, modern desires; title: Channeling domestic violence; title: The I.K.U. experience: the Shu-Lea Cheang phenomenon; title: Jonathan Caouette: what in tarnation?; title: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's tropical maladies; title: Beyond doom : Gregg Araki's mysterious film; title: A walk in the clouds : Julián Hernández; title: Lethal lesbians: the cinematic inscription of murderous desire; title: Queering the biopic documentary; title: A queer and present danger; title: Preface to a history; title: Refashioning Mexican screen sexuality : Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc; title: Gay/lesbian traces; title: Mexico in the 1940s : reclaiming a gender pioneer; title: Revolution, sexuality, and the paradox of queer film in cuba; title: Queering the social landscape; title: Ang Lee's lonesome cowboys; title: Itty bitty titty committee : free radicals and the feminist carnivalesque; title: Nouvelle queer : from morality tales to mortality tales in Ozon, Téchiné, Collard; title: Got milk? : Gus Van Sant's encounter with history.