Midnight Cowboy: Volume 5

by Jon Towlson

Midnight Cowboy - the story of a small-town stud's attempt to make it big as a hustler on the streets of 1960s New York - is an indisputably iconic film. Though recognized in terms of its early adoption of Nouvelle Vague cinematography and editing techniques, and renowned for an Oscar win in spite of controversy over its X-rating, Midnight Cowboy has yet to be understood as a classic of queer cinema. Jon Towlson reclaims Midnight Cowboy as a queer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228017009
• ISBN13: 9780228017004
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 128 Pages