Brokeback Mountain
"This series of books discusses contemporary American films that have found commercial success but which have not been constrained by the formal and ideological parameters of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Each volume explores a specific film and combines original research with clearly defined classroom-orientated frameworks of film analysis." "Upon its release in zoos, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story...
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Brokeback Mountain signalled a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the popular short story by Annie Proulx and directed by the Taiwanese born Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain situated a love story between two men at the heart of American mythology, spectatorship, and film genre. The film offered both an independent and queer revision of the conventions and clichés of the Hollywood melodrama as well as the western through its studied exploration of the sexuality, repression, and desire of two contemporary cowboys. This book explores the film's central drama of sexuality through key ideas in film studies and offers an overview of Focus Features as a hybrid company that operates across both the mainstream and independent cinema sectors.
Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Brokaholics Anonymous 11 The Indie in Focus 82 Queering the Western 313 A Pathetic State of Affairs: Brokeback Mountain and Melodrama 794 When Jack and Ennis Meet: Cruising as a Mode of Gay Spectatorship 94Notes 121Bibliography 131Index 139
\ Film Quarterly - Martin Fradley\ [An] excellent monograph.\ \
