Brokeback Mountain

by Gary Needham

Upon its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain situated a love story between two closeted cowboys at the heart of American mythology, film spectatorship and genre. Brokeback Mountain offered an independent and queer revision of the conventions and clich s of the western and the melodrama...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748633820
• ISBN13: 9780748633821
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher