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21. British Queer Cinema

    Edited by Robin Griffiths

    Series: British Popular Cinema

    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’,...

    Published March 1st 2006 by Routledge
22. The Women Who Knew Too Much

    Hitchcock and Feminist Theory, 2nd Edition

    By Tania Modlesk, Tania Modleski

    First published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of...

    Published September 6th 2005 by Routledge
23. Screened Out

    Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall

    By Richard Barrios

    Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of movie making, Screened Out shows how much gay...

    Published February 21st 2005 by Routledge
24. Beyond Bollywood

    The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

    By Jigna Desai

    Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and...

    Published December 15th 2003 by Routledge
25. Women Filmmakers

    Refocusing

    Edited by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, Valerie Raoul

    This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume...

    Published June 26th 2003 by Routledge
26. Masculinity

    Bodies, Movies, Culture

    Edited by Peter Lehman

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    Lehman brings together new work on masculinity in film by established film scholars, new academics, performance artists, and cultural critics. The essays analyze trends from the role of gay men in saving heterosexuality to the emergence of new queer cinema....

    Published May 1st 2001 by Routledge
27. Flaming Classics

    Queering the Film Canon

    By Alexander Doty

    This lively, opinionated, and playful look at the movies is a must-read for film buffs, and for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and popular culture. One thing's for sure. After reading Flaming Classics you'll know you're definitely not in Kansas anymore....

    Published May 7th 2000 by Routledge
28. Black Women Film and Video Artists

    Edited by Jacqueline Bobo

    Series: AFI Film Readers

    Published April 8th 1998 by Routledge
29. Working Girls

    Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

    By Yvonne Tasker

    Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new Hollywood cinema has responded to feminism and contemporary sexual identities. Whether analysing the rise...

    Published April 8th 1998 by Routledge
30. Looking for the Other

    Feminism, Film and the Imperial Gaze

    By E. Ann Kaplan

    What happens when white people look at non-whites? What happens when the gaze is returned? Looking for the Other responds to criticisms leveled at white feminist film theory of the 1970s and 1980s for its neglect of issues to do with race. It focuses attention on the male gaze across cultures, as...

    Published March 5th 1997 by Routledge