{"product_id":"the-desiring-image-nick-davis-9780199993161","title":"The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Desiring-Image\u003c\/em\u003e yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory. The book defines \"queer cinema\" less as a specific genre or in terms of gay and lesbian identity, but more broadly as a kind of filmmaking that conveys sexual desire and orientation as potentially fluid within any individual's experience, and as forces that can therefore unite unlikely groups of people along new lines, socially, sexually, or politically. The films driving this analysis range from celebrated fixtures of the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s (including Cheryl Dunye's \u003cem\u003eThe Watermelon Woman\u003c\/em\u003e and Todd Haynes's \u003cem\u003eVelvet Goldmine\u003c\/em\u003e) to sexually provocative films of the same era that are rarely classified as queer (David Cronenberg's \u003cem\u003eDead Ringers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e) to breakout films by 21st-century directors (Rodney Evans's \u003cem\u003eBrother to Brother\u003c\/em\u003e, John Cameron Mitchell's \u003cem\u003eShortbus\u003c\/em\u003e). To frame these readings and to avoid heterosexist assumptions in other forms of film analysis, \u003cem\u003eThe Desiring-Image\u003c\/em\u003e revisits the work of the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, whose two major works on cinema somehow never address the radical ideas about desire he expresses in other texts. This book brings those notions together in innovative ways, making them clear and accessible to newcomers and field specialists alike, with clear, illustrated examples drawn from a wide range of movies extending beyond the central case studies. Thus, \u003cem\u003eThe Desiring-Image\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to readers interested in queer and gay\/lesbian studies, in film theory, in feminist and sexuality scholarship, and in theory and philosophy, putting those discourses into rich, surprising conversations with popular cinema of the last 30 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199993165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199993161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2014","brand":"Nick Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913410150655,"sku":"9780199993161","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_290ea531-9e20-4f53-816c-de8039db39f1.jpg?v=1680620267","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-desiring-image-nick-davis-9780199993161","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}