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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: The Pasts and Futures of a Story and a Film | |
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| Gay or Universal Story? Initial Debates and Cultural Contexts | |
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| Men in Love: Is Brokeback Mountain a Gay Film | |
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| An Affair to Remember | |
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| Response to �An Affair to Remember� | |
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| The Magic Mountain | |
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| Backs Unbroken: Ang Lee, Forbearance, and the Closet | |
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| Miles to Go and Promises to Keep: Homophobic Culture and Gay Civil Rights | |
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| Back to the Ranch Ag'in: Brokeback Mountain and Gay Civil Rights | |
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| Breaking No Ground: Why Crash Won, Why Brokeback Lost, and How the Academy Chose to Play It Safe | |
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| �Jack, I Swear�: Some Promises to Gay Culture from Mainstream Hollywood | |
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| �Better Two Than One�: The Shirts from Brokeback Mountain | |
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| American Eden: Nature, Homophobic Violence, and the Social Imaginary | |
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| West of the Closet, Fear on the Range | |
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| Adapting �Brokeback Mountain,� Queering the Western | |
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| Interview between Michael Silverblatt and Annie Proulx | |
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| In the Shadow of the Tire Iron | |
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| Adapting Annie Proulx's Story to the Mainstream Multiplex | |
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| Not So Lonesome Cowboys: The Queer Western | |
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| Public Responses and Cultural Appropriations | |
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| �One Dies, the Other Doesn't�: Brokeback and the Blogosphere | |
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| Making Sense of the Brokeback Paraphenomenon | |
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| Alberta, Authenticity, and Queer Erasure | |
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| Scenes of Work and Experience in the Rural West | |
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| Real Gay Cowboys and Brokeback Mountain | |
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| Marx on the Mountain: Pleasure and the Laboring Body | |
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| Personal Borders | |
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| Sympathy, Melodrama, and Passion | |
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| Mother Twist: Brokeback Mountain and Male Melodrama | |
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| Passion and Sympathy in Brokeback Mountain | |
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| Selected Brokeback Bibliography | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |