Queer Cinema

Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-16313-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 211 g

Reihe: Short Cuts

Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys illustrates queer cinematic aesthetics by highlighting key films that emerged at historical turning points throughout the twentieth century. Barbara Mennel traces the representation of gays and lesbians from the sexual liberation movements of the roaring 1920s in Berlin to the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City and the emergence of queer activism and film in the early 1990s. She explains early tropes of queerness, such as the boarding school or the vampire, and describes the development of camp from 1950s Hollywood to underground art of the late 1960s in New York City.

Mennel concludes with an exploration of the contemporary mainstreaming of gay and lesbian films and global queer cinema. Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Gay Cowboys not only offers an introduction to a gay and lesbian film history, but also contributes to an academic discussion about queer subversion of mainstream film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mennel, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Origins of Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Cross-Dressers2. Camp: Where Art Meets Trash3. Stonewall and the Positive Identification Figure4. New Queer Cinema: A New Aesthetic Language5. Gay Cowboys, Fabulous Femmes and Global QueersConclusionNotesFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Mennel, Barbara
Barbara Mennel is Associate Professor of Film Studies and German Studies at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature (2007) and Cities and Cinema (2008) and the co-editor of Spatial Turns: Space, Place, and Mobility in German Literary and Visual Culture (2010) and of Turkish German Cinema (2012).