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Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires and Gay Cowboys (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231163132)
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xQueer 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.Author: Barbara Mennel
ISBN-10: 0231163134
ISBN-13: 9780231163132
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Language: English
Published: 10/23/2012
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2013
By Barbara Mennel
xBarbara 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).
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