Brokeback Mountain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780748633821)

Since its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain situated a love story between two closeted cowboys at the heart of American mythology, film spectatorship and genre. Brokeback Mountain offered an independent and queer revision of the conventions and clich駸 of the western and the melodrama through a studied exploration of homophobia and the closet. This book examines Brokeback Mountain in relation to indie cinema, genre, spectatorship, editing, and homosexuality. In doing so it brings film studies and queer theory into dialogue with one another and explains the importance of Brokeback Mountain as both a contemporary independent and queer film.

Author: Gary Needham
ISBN-10: 0748633820
ISBN-13: 9780748633821
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2010
Pages: 152
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.86w x 0.56d