For three decades, award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes, who emerged in the early 1990s as a foundational figure in New Queer Cinema, has gained critical recognition for his outsider perspective. Today, Haynes is widely known for bringing women’s stories to the screen. Analyzing Haynes’s films including Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far from Heaven (2002), and Carol (2015), as well as his unauthorized Karen Carpenter biopic, Superstar (1987), and the television miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), the contributors to Reframing Todd Haynes reassess his work in light of his long-standing feminist commitments and his exceptional career as a director of women’s films. They present multiple perspectives on Haynes’s film and television work and on his role as an artist-activist who draws on academic theorizations of gender and cinema. The volume illustrates the influence of feminist theory on Haynes’s aesthetic vision, most evident in his persistent interest in the political and formal possibilities afforded by the genre of the woman’s film. The contributors contend that no consideration of Haynes’s work can afford to ignore the crucial place of feminism within it.
Contributors. Danielle Bouchard, Nick Davis, Jigna Desai, Mary R. Desjardins, Patrick Flanery, Theresa L. Geller, Rebecca M. Gordon, Jess Issacharoff, Lynne Joyrich, Bridget Kies, Julia Leyda, David E. Maynard, Noah A. Tsika, Patricia White, Sharon Willis
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Feminism’s Indelible Mark / Theresa L. Geller
- Part I. Influences and Interlocutors
- 1. Lesbian Reverie: Carol in History and Fantasy / Patricia White
- 2. Playing with Dolls: Girls, Fans, and the Queer Feminism of Velvet Goldmine / Julia Leyda
- 3. Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore: Collaboration and the Uncontainable Body / Rebecca M. Gordon
- 4. Oh, the Irony: Tracing Christine Vachon’s Filmic Signature / David E. Maynard and Theresa L. Geller
- 5. “The Hardest, the Most Difficult Film”: Safe as Feminist Film Praxis / Theresa L. Geller
- Part II. Intersections and Interventions
- 6. “Toxins in the Atmosphere”: Reanimating the Feminist Poison / Jess Issacharoff
- 7. “All the Cake in the World”: Five Provocations on Mildred Pierce / Patrick Flanery
- 8. The Politics of Disappointment: Todd Haynes Rewrites Douglas Sirk / Sharon Willis
- 9. All That Whiteness Allows: Femininity, Race, and Empire in Safe, Carol, and Wonderstruck / Danielle Bouchard and Jigna Desai
- Part III. Intermediality and Intertextuality
- 10. Written on the Screen: Mediation and Immersion in Far from Heaven / Lynne Joyrich
- 11. It’s Not TV, It’s Mildred Pierce / Bridget Kies
- 12. The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter / Mary R. Desjardins
- 13. Having a Ball with Dottie: Queering Female Stardom from MGM to Todd Haynes / Noah A. Tsika
- 14. Bringing It All Back Home, or Feminist Suppositions on a Film concerning Dylan / Nick Davis
- Filmography
- References
- Contributors
- Index
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