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New Queer Cinema The Director's Cut

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ISBN-10: 0822354284

ISBN-13: 9780822354284

Edition: 2013

Authors: B. Ruby Rich

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B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in theVillage Voicein 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…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Origins, Festivals, Audiences
Before the Beginning: Lineages and Preconceptions
The New Queer Cinema: Directors Cut
Collision, Catastrophe, Celebration: The Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals and Their Publics
What's a Good Gay Film?
Bulletins from the Front
The King of Queer: Derek Jarman
True Stories of Forbidden Love
Goings and Comings, the Go Fish Way
Historical Fictions, Modern Desires: The Watermelon Woman
Channeling Domestic Violence: In the Den with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon
The I.K.U. Experience: The Shu-Lea Cheang Phenomenon
Jonathan Caouette: What in Tarnation?
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Maladies
Beyond Doom: Gregg Araki's Mysterious Film
A Walk in the Clouds: Juli�n Hern�ndez
Genre Meets Gender
Lethal Lesbians: The Cinematic Inscription of Murderous Desire
Queering the Biopic Documentary
A Queer and Present Danger: The Death of New Queer Cinema?
Queering a New Latin American Cinema
Preface to a History
Refashioning Mexican Screen Sexuality: Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc
Gay and Lesbian Traces
Mexico in the Forties: Reclaiming a Gender Pioneer
Revolution, Sexuality, and the Paradox of Queer Film in Cuba
Queering the Social Landscape
Expansions and Reversals
Ang Lee's Lonesome Cowboys
Itty Bitty Titty Committee: Free Radicals and the Feminist Carnivalesque
Queer Nouveau: From Morality Tales to Mortality Tales in Ozon, T�chin�, Collard
Got Milk? Gus Van Sant's Encounter with History
Conclusion
Filmography
Bibliography
Credits
Index