British Queer Cinema (British Popular Cinema) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415307783 ISBN 13: 9780415307789

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

British Queer Cinema draws together a diverse range of innovative new essays that explore, for the first time, the provocative history of lesbian, gay and queer representation in British cinema.

From the early years of ‘Pre-Gay’ film, through to the social upheaval of post-war ‘permissiveness’, Gay Liberation and the ‘post-AIDS’ queer generation, contributors examine the shifting and complex nature of queer identity, desire and spectatorship across a number of classical and contemporary British popular film genres and traditions.

Through case studies of key works such as The Killing of Sister George, Prick Up Your Ears and Beautiful Thing, a reappraisal of the films of Anthony Asquith, Terence Davies and Derek Jarman, to the ‘queerness’ of the heritage film, the homoerotic ‘New Wave’, or the star performances of Dirk Bogarde, Beryl Reid and Stephen Fry, this timely collection maps the relationship between contemporary queer sexuality and its socio-historical, national and critical contexts.

About this title

About the Author:

Robin Griffiths is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Gloucestershire. He is the author of New Queer Cinema: Beyond the Celluloid Closet (2005), and editor of Queer Cinema in Europe (2005).

Review:

'an excellent overview' - Journal of British Cinema and Television

"it opens up numerous areas worth further inquiry..." --The Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415307783
• ISBN 13: 9780415307789
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Griffiths Robin