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This book is divided into sections on the definition, the filmmakers, the geography, and the spectator of New Queer Cinema. Chapters address the pivotal directors and the salient films but also non-mainstream and non-Anglo-American work (e.g. experimental film and third cinema).

This book is divided into sections on the definition, the filmmakers, the geography, and the spectator of New Queer Cinema. Chapters address the pivotal directors and the salient films but also non-mainstream and non-Anglo-American work (e.g. experimental film and third cinema).

The Body's Perilous Pleasures provides a provocative engagement with the cultural exploitation of the body and its dangerous desires. Focusing on contemporary film and fiction ( Dead Ringers, Crash, The Crying Game, Romeo is Bleeding, The Exorcist, Damage, Heavenly Creatures, Sister My Sister, and vampire and cyborg novels), the volume examines the construction of the body within cultural production and as a cultural product itself. It explore...

Reveals the ambivalent place of death in 20th and 21st century culture: the ongoing split between its over- and under-statement, between its cold realities and its fantastical, transcendental and, most importantly, strategic depictions. This book examines the formal, psychological and political exchange between cinema and death.

Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, "New Queer Cinema" has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audiences to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish, and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema and to the infiltration of "queer" images and themes into the mainstream. Why did this shift take place? Was it political gains, cultural momentum, or market forces that energi...

Exploring gender, race, nation and narration, this groundbreaking study isolates how mainstream cinema works to bestow value upon certain lives and specific socio-cultural identities in a hierarchical and partisan way. Dedicated to the popular, to the political and ethical implications of mass culture's themes and imperatives, this book takes this culture to task for its mortal economies of expendability. It also disinters the capacity for fil...

This book cuts a lucid path through the debate on spectatorship. It revisits the classics of Hollywood, explores films beyond the mainstream, such as Dogme 95, and shows how cinema makes a spectacle of the everyday while turning the spectacular into something commonplace. It also muses on the consequences of our sharing in or witnessing the private or intimate acts of others and our enjoyment of events that often represent a gross break with l...