Queer Cinema, The Film Reader

by Harry Benshoff (Editor)

Queer Cinema, The Film Reader examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. Clearly divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the Reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualities in relation to the cinema. The four sections The Reader concludes with an essay that queerly rethinks classical gaze theory and allows students and scholars of the subject to draw their own conclusions in their studies.

Genres: Queer, Film, LGBT, Nonfiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2004

Reviews

[stephen baker]

when people think of queer cinema they think of call me by your name, but queer cinema's origins stem back to the gothic times. this book offers analysis on movies you would never expect to be queer, and allows you to understand what "queer" really means, and it's history and effect on cinema as an art and as an industry.