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Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as Philadelphia, Boys Don't Cry, and Brokeback Mountain.
In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer teens, and others. Throughout, this book continually reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of "normalcy," "deviance," and "social otherness," in ways that frequently have real—and sometimes detrimental—effects on actual people.
Covering a range of films, including From Here to Eternity, The Boys in the Band, Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Point Break, The Doom Generation, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinsey, Brokeback Mountain, Transamerica, and Shortbus, this book shows not only how much has changed since the mid-20th century, but also how much has remained the same. Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema provides perceptive insights for students and academics interested in film history, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, popular culture, and LGBTQ studies.
Contents
Contents
Foreword by Hollis Griffin
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Latent Representations
Chapter 1: The Love Between Warden and Prew That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Containing Homosexuality as Subtext in From Here to Eternity
Chapter 2: Gay Male Spectatorship, Textual Flexibility, and Mainstream American Cinema
Part II: Manifest Representations
Chapter 3: "Out of the Closets and Into the Shadows": Cruising with the Boys in the Band
Chapter 4: Queering the Teen Movie: Exploring Groundbreaking Representations of Non-Heterosexual Adolescents in Gregg Araki's Teen-Apocalypse Trilogy
Chapter 5: Gay Men, Self-Representation, and AIDS Documentaries
Chapter 6: When Style Becomes Substance: The Form and Function of a Rap Aesthetic in the AIDS Movie Chocolate Babies
Chapter 7: Increasing Visi(bi)lity: Bisexual Men in Contemporary U.S. Cinema
Chapter 8: Transamerican Cinema: Representing Gender Dysphoria on Film
Chapter 9: Retrograde Storytelling or Queer Cinematic Triumph? The (Not So) Groundbreaking Qualities of the Film Brokeback Mountain
Chapter 10: Back to the Future: Queer Representations and the Films of John Cameron Mitchell
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
About the Author
