The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema

Paperback
from $0.00

Author: Thomas Waugh

ISBN-10: 0822324687

ISBN-13: 9780822324683

Category: Film Biographies & Interviews

Search in google:

A selection of writings on gay and lesbian cinema by one of the pioneers of queer film criticism. Gay Times Witty, ironic, and always passionate. . . . An inspiration to countless would-be gay film journalist and an invaluable study source for queer film buffs.

ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Films by Gays for Gays: A Very Natural Thing, Word Is Out, and The Naked Civil Servant (1977)14Gays, Straights, Film, and the Left: A Dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) (1977)34Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976-77)43A Fag-Spotter's Guide to Eisenstein (1977)59Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1978)69Medical Thrills: Born a Man...Let Me Die a Woman (1978-79)72Marnau: The Films Behind the Man (1979)74An Unromantic Fiction: I'm Not from Here, by Harvey Marks (1979)86The Gay Nineties, the Gay Seventies: Samperi's Ernesto and von Praunheim's Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979)88Montgomery Clift Biographies: Stars and Sex (1979-80)93Gay Cinema, Slick vs. Real: Chant d'amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man (1980)101Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam (1980)109A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Roziers's Blue Jeans (1980)114Caligula (1981)117Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981)122Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981)126Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982)131Two Strong Entries, One Dramatic Exit: Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and Querelle (1982)135Hollywood's Change of Heart? (Porky's and The Road Warrior) (1982)141Dreams, Cruises, and Cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutmann's Nagua (1983)145Hauling an Old Corpse Out of Hitchcock's Trunk: Rope (1983)148Sex beyond Neon: Third World Gay Films? (1985)151Fassbinder Fiction: A New Biography (1986)156Ashes and Diamonds in the Year of the Queer: Decline of the American Empire, Anne Trister, A Virus Knows No Morals, and Man of Ashes (1986)161The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986-87)172Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987)187Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988)195Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988)208Whipping Up a Cinema (1989)214Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992)218In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946-1990 (1991)235We're Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999)237Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969-1984 (1995-97)246Archeology and Censorship (1997)272Selected Additional Works297Index299