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Author Gerstner, David A

Title Queer Imaginings : On Writing and Cinematic Friendship / David A. Gerstner
Published Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (329 p.)
Series Queer Screens
Queer screens.
Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- On Writing -- On Cinema -- On Friendship -- Putting It Together -- A Note on My Better (Queer) Angels -- Notes -- I: Politics, Love, and the Queer Auteur -- 1. Introduction to Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic -- Performing Black and Queer -- White Seduction -- Black Male Homosexuality -- The Cinematic -- Notes -- 2. Past the Post?: Screening Progress and Reappearing Fascism -- 1. -- 1.1. -- 1.1.1. -- 1.1.1.1. -- Notes
3. Authorship, A Queer Death: Review of Jane Gallop's The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time -- Notes -- II: Archival Penetration -- 4. Queer Angels . . . -- Presenting the Homosexual! -- The Historian as Liar -- Les Pochettes-Surprises du Gay Paris -- Angelic Excrescence -- Historical Perversions and Surreal Objets d'Art -- The Perversion of History -- History as Gossip -- Notes -- 5. Hide and Seek, or, The History of Difference under Erasure -- 6. Penetrating Epstein: Reviews of Une vie pour le cinéma: Jean Epstein, by Joël Daire
Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations, edited by Sarah Keller and Jason N. Paul -- and Jean Epstein, DVD Box Set -- Notes -- 7. In Excess of the Cut: Peter Greenaway's Eisenstein in Guanajuato -- Notes -- 8. Queer Modernism: The Cinematic Aesthetic of Vincente Minnelli -- Minnelli's Masculinity and the Arts -- Small-Town Boys and Dandified "Hysteria" in Twentieth-Century New York -- Urban Sophistication -- Notes -- 9. The Case of the Ceramic Dildo: Notes on Queer Historiography and Ramón Novarro's Remains -- Deviously Charming -- Urban Migrations
Tearing at the Skin of History: Bathhouses, Hustlers, and Art Deco Dildos -- "Souvenirs Drenched in Blood" -- Teatro Intimo -- Notes -- 10. How Do We Look So Far?: Notes toward a Queer Film Philosophy -- I. -- II. -- III. -- IV. -- V. -- VI. -- VII. -- Notes -- III: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship -- 11. Queer Turns: The Cinematic Friendship of Marcel Duchamp and Charles Demuth -- New York and Duchamp's Cinematic Turn on Gender -- Queer Cranks -- Demuth's "Good Seed" -- Notes -- 12. Marlon Riggs's Tongues Untied: DVD Review
13. With "Gay Abandon": The Auteur as Homosexual Writer in the Twenty-First Century -- Writing and Twenty-First-Century Gay Auteurs -- Writing Himself into the Film: Lucio Castro -- The Gay Auteur on the Move: Christophe Honoré -- Writing Wildly: Camille Vidal-Naquet -- Notes -- 14. Strange Days: Christophe Honoré's Multimedia Trilogy -- The Novel -- The Film -- The Play -- Notes -- 15. Speculations on the Origin of the World: Notes toward Queer Feminism, Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde, and Christophe Honoré's 17 fois Cécile Cassard -- A Cinematic Dry Run -- "The Aim of All Life Is Death"
Summary Discovering the queer auteur and their seductive cinematic delights and possibilities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes The Cinematic Womb
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2023)
Subject Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
Sexual minorities' writings, English.
Sexual minorities in motion pictures.
Sexual minorities in literature.
Auteur theory (Motion pictures)
Sexual minorities in literature
Sexual minorities in motion pictures
Sexual minorities' writings, English
LGBTQ+ people
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0814350224
9780814350225