The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema

by Thomas Waugh

For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism, and over the next two decades solidified his reputation as one of the most important and influential gay film critics. The Fruit Machine--a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822324687
• ISBN13: 9780822324683
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Another Look at Gay Cinema

Waugh, Thomas. "The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema", Duke University Press, 2000. Another Look at Gay Cinema Amos Lassen Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer cinema for over 20 years and is one of the pioneers on gay film theory and criticism. "The Fruit Machine" is a compilation of his writings that originally appeared in the gay press, journals of academia and various anthologies. He shows the history of critical sensibilities toward gay film and how gay cinema fits in the overall body of film criticism. Waugh looks at some of the great films of the gay cinema canon, examines several of the great filmmakers such as Fassbinder and Eisenstein and writes about some of the film personalities who have emerged as gay icons. We learn of the censorship issues and the AIDS epidemic as we review all movie genre--documentary, mainstream and erotica. His perspectives are personal and he shows us the importance of the camera as showing how we live. He writes with a passion in a style that is witty and informative.