New Queer Cinema

The Director's Cut

Autor: Rich, B. Ruby
Editor: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822354116
eISBN Pdf: 9780822399698
Lloc de publicació: Durham , United States
Any de publicació digital: 2013
Mes: Març
Pàgines: 352
DDC: 791.43/653
Idioma: Anglés

Descripció

B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include an entire generation of queer artists, filmmakers, and activists.

As a critic, curator, journalist, and scholar, Rich has been inextricably linked to the New Queer Cinema from its inception. This volume presents her new thoughts on the topic, as well as bringing together the best of her writing on the NQC. She follows this cinematic movement from its origins in the mid-1980s all the way to the present in essays and articles directed at a range of audiences, from readers of academic journals to popular glossies and weekly newspapers. She presents her insights into such NQC pioneers as Derek Jarman and Isaac Julien and investigates such celebrated films as Go Fish, Brokeback Mountain, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, and Milk. In addition to exploring less-known films and international cinemas (including Latin American and French films and videos), she documents the more recent incarnations of the NQC on screen, on the web, and in art galleries.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Origins, Festivals, Audiences
- 1. Before the Beginning: Lineages and Preconceptions
- 2. The New Queer Cinema: Director’s Cut
- 3. Collision, Catastrophe, Celebration: The Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals and Their Publics
- 4. What’s a Good Gay Film?
Part II. Bulletins from the Front
- 5. The King of Queer: Derek Jarman
- 6. True Stories of Forbidden Love
- 7. Goings and Comings, The Go Fish Way
- 8. Historical Fictions, Modern Desires: The Watermelon Woman
- 9. Channeling Domestic Violence: In the Den with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon
- 10. The I.K.U. Experience: The Shu-Lea Cheang Phenomenon
- 11. Jonathan Caouette: What in Tarnation?
- 12. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Maladies
- 13. Beyond Doom: Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Film
- 14. A Walk in the Clouds: Julián Hernández
Part III. Genre Meets Gender
- 15. Lethal Lesbians: The Cinematic Inscription of Murderous Desire
- 16. Queering the Biopic Documentary
- 17. A Queer and Present Danger: The Death of New Queer Cinema?
Part IV. Queering a New Latin American Cinema
- 18. Preface to a History
- 19. Refashioning Mexican Screen Sexuality: Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc
- 20. Gay and Lesbian Traces
- 21. Mexico in the Forties: Reclaiming a Gender Pioneer
- 22. Revolution, Sexuality, and the Paradox of Queer Film in Cuba
- 23. Queering the Social Landscape
Part V. Expansions and Reversals
- 24. Ang Lee’s Lonesome Cowboys
- 25. Itty Bitty Titty Committee: Free Radicals and the Feminist Carnivalesque
- 26. Queer Nouveau: From Morality Tales to Mortality Tales in Ozon, Téchiné, Collard
- 27. Got Milk? Gus Van Sant’s Encounter with History
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Credits
Index