The Brokeback book
Subtitle: from story to cultural phenomenon
By: edited by William R. Handley
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780803226647
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the pasts and futures of a story and a film / William R. Handley; title: Gay or universal story? initial debates and cultural contexts. Men in love: is Brokeback Mountain a gay film? / David Leavitt; title: An affair to remember / Daniel Mendelsohn; title: Response to "An affair to remember" / James Schamus; title: The magic mountain / Andrew Holleran; title: Backs unbroken: Ang Lee, forbearance, and the closet / Mun-Hou Lo; title: Miles to go and promises to keep : homophobic culture and gay civil rights. Back to the ranch ag'in: Brokeback Mountain and gay civil rights / James Morrison; title: Breaking no ground: why Crash won, why Brokeback lost, and how the academy chose to play it safe / Kenneth Turan; title: "Jack, I swear": some promises to gay culture from mainstream Hollywood / Chris Freeman; title: "Better two than one": the shirts from Brokeback Mountain / Gregory Hinton; title: American Eden: nature, homophobic violence, and the social imaginary / Colin Carman; title: West of the closet, fear on the range / Alex Hunt; title: Adapting "Brokeback Mountain," queering the western. Interview between Michael Silverblatt and Annie Proulx; title: In the shadow of the tire iron / Alan Dale; title: Adapting Annie Proulx's story to the mainstream multiplex / Adam Sonstegard; title: Not so lonesome cowboys: the queer western / Judith Halberstam; title: Public responses and cultural appropriations. "One dies, the other doesn't": Brokeback and the blogosphere / Noah Tsika; title: Making sense of the Brokeback paraphenomenon / David Weiss; title: Alberta, authenticity, and queer erasure / Jon Davies; title: Scenes of work and experience in the rural west. Real gay cowboys and Brokeback Mountain / Patricia Nell Warren; title: Marx on the mountain: pleasure and the laboring body / Vanessa Osborne; title: Personal borders / Martin Aguilera; title: Sympathy, melodrama, and passion. Mother twist: Brokeback Mountain and male melodrama / Susan McCabe; title: Passion and sympathy in Brokeback Mountain / Calvin Bedient.