Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film

by Ellis Hanson

Book Overview

This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the "politics of representation" has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to Out Takes employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship.

The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323427
• ISBN13: 9780822323426
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"