| Description |
1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Visible evidence ; v. 1 |
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Visible evidence ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Chris Holmlund and Cynthia Fuchs. -- Queer representation and Oregon's 1992 anti-gay ballot measure: measuring the politics of mainstreaming / Ronald Gregg. -- Imaging the queer south: southern lesbian and gay documentary / Chris Cagle. -- Real/young/TV queer / Erika Suderburg. -- Of hags and crones: reclaiming lesbian desire for the trouble zone of aging / Linda Dittmar. -- Documentary that dare/not speak its name: Jack Smith's Flaming creatures / Marc Siegel. -- Walking on tippy toes: lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-Stonewall period 1969-84 / Thomas Waugh. -- When autobiography meets ethnography and girl meets girl: the "dyke docs" of Sadie Benning and Su Friedrich / Chris Holmlund. -- Love, death, and videotape: Silverlake life / Beverly Seckinger and Janet Jakobsen. -- Autobiography, home movies, and Derek Jarman's history lesson / Justin Wyatt. -- Getting into lesbian shorts: white spectators and performative documentaries by masters of color / Lynda Goldstein. -- "Hard to believe": reality anxieties in Without you I'm nothing, Paris is burning, and "Dunyementaries" / Cynthia Fuchs. -- Transgender mirrors: queering sexual difference / Chris Straayer. -- Irony and dissembling: queer tactics for experimental documentary / Kathleen McHugh. -- Film and videography / Lynda McAfee |
| Summary |
From film festivals to university campuses, from private homes to first-run theaters, people everywhere are viewing and discussing gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, and transgender films and videos. Between the Sheets, In the Streets considers these videos and films, testifying to the unavoidable connections between sexuality (the sheets) and activism (the streets) for all who identify as gay, lesbian, or queer in the 1990s. This first collection of essays to focus exclusively on queer, lesbian, and gay documentary argues that documentary films and videos speak with a sense of political and socia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography: pages 241-263 |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Documentary mass media -- United States
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Gay people in popular culture -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Documentary mass media
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Gays in popular culture
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fuchs, Cynthia.
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Holmlund, Chris.
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| LC no. |
96047751 |
| ISBN |
9780816627745 |
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0816627746 |
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9780816687275 |
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0816687277 |
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