New Queer Cinema A Critical Reader

Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, "New Queer Cinema" has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audiences to the proliferation of intelligent, stylish, and daring work by lesbian and gay filmmakers within independent cinema and to the infiltration of "queer" images and themes into the mainstream. New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader provides a definitive and highly readable guide to the development of this important and controversial film movement. With a critical eye to its uneasy relationship to the mainstream, New Queer Cinema explores the aesthetic, sociocultural, political, and, necessarily, commercial investments of the movement. It is the first full-length study of recent developments in queer cinema that combines indispensable discussions of central issues with exciting new work by key writers. Features Provides a definitive introduction to New Queer Cinema Clear structure with each section addressing a key topic in the study of New Queer Cinema Themes covered include genre, gender and race, politics, media, and the relationship between New Queer Cinema and the mainstream.Aaron, Michele is the author of 'New Queer Cinema A Critical Reader', published 2004 under ISBN 9780813534862 and ISBN 0813534860.