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  1. Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film (Series Q)
    Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film (Series Q)
  2. Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
    Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self, and the Other
  3. Baltimore Portraits (Duke University Museum of Art)
    Baltimore Portraits (Duke University Museum of Art)
  4. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q)
    Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture (Series Q)
  5. The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema
    The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema
  6. Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (New Americanists S.)
    Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (New Americanists S.)
  7. Virtuous Vice: Homoerohaim and the Public Sphere (Series Q)
    Virtuous Vice: Homoerohaim and the Public Sphere (Series Q)
  8. Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorship
    Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorship
  9. Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance
    Tough Love: Amazon Encounters in the English Renaissance
  10. Margaret Mead Made ME Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas
    Margaret Mead Made ME Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas
  11. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
    Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity
  12. Willa Cather and Others ("Q" S.)
    Willa Cather and Others ("Q" S.)
  13. A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy
    A Not So Foreign Affair: Fascism, Sexuality and the Cultural Rhetoric of American Democracy
  14. Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall (Series Q)
    Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion Before Stonewall (Series Q)
  15. Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson and Keanu Reeves
    Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson and Keanu Reeves
  16. The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
    The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
  17. Making Girls into Women
    Making Girls into Women
  18. The World Turned: Essay on Gay History, Politics and Culture
    The World Turned: Essay on Gay History, Politics and Culture
  19. An Archive of Feelings
    An Archive of Feelings
  20. Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Next Wave)
    Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Next Wave)
  21. Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Perverse Modernities S.)
    Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (Perverse Modernities S.)
  22. Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
    Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
  23. In the Courts of the Lord
    In the Courts of the Lord
  24. Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-sex Relationships in Thailand (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning & Memory S.)
    Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-sex Relationships in Thailand (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning & Memory S.)
  25. Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-sex Relationships in Thailand (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning & Memory S.)
    Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Female Same-sex Relationships in Thailand (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning & Memory S.)
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film (Series Q)
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Book Description

This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the “politics of representation” has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to Out Takes employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship.
The essays examine a wide array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly Creatures, and Bound , and discuss such figures as Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alfred Hitchcock. Divided into three sections, the first part reconsiders the construction of masculinity and male homoerotic desire—especially with respect to the role of women—in classic cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The second section offers a deconstructive consideration of lesbian film spectatorship and lesbian representation. Part three looks at the historical trajectory of independent queer cinema, including works by H.D., Kenneth Anger, and Derek Jarman.
By exploring new approaches to the study of sexuality in film, Out Takes will be useful to scholars in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and cinema studies.

Contributors. Bonnie Burns, Steven Cohan, Alexander Doty, Lee Edelman, Michelle Elleray, Jim Ellis, Ellis Hanson, D. A. Miller, Eric Savoy, Matthew Tinkcom, Amy Villarejo, Jean Walton

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Essential Reading.......2002-04-02

Everything you'd expect and hope to find in a scholarly work on film and queer theory, and a good many surprises. Ellis Hanson's well edited collection has found its way onto numerous college reading lists and will doubtless stay on them for years to come as this is indeed a seminal volume in the history (brief as it is) of queer theory and film. Academic yet readable and engaging, these essays leave behind discussion of queer films in terms of whether or not they contain "good" or "positive" representations of gay men and lesbians, and rather celebrate what is illusive, problematic, complex, and interesting about the queer themes and characters that have appeared in film since its earliest days.
Hanson's own essay tackles lesbian vampire films, a genre which most critics and film theorists have seldom taken seriously. By the time he's done with it, however, you can't imagine how lesbian vampires could have been igorned for so long. The book, like Hanson's essay, invites us into new and unfamiliar territory and rewards us with fascinating perspectives and analytic energy that can only come when scholars are turned loose on fresh subject matter.
Although talking about anything "queer" is apt to offend certain constituencies, these essays cannot be lightly dismissed. The book is challenging, provocative, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who is interested in queer theory, film, or both.

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