Beschreibung:
From the stereotypes and subversive sub-texts of earlier works to the complex visibility of queer identity in the 70s, 80s and 90s, the contributors to this collection discuss the varying contexts and deployments of homosexuality to define and deconstruct the cultural values of British popular cinema
Introduction: Queer Britannia -- a century of sinema / Robin Griffiths -- In search of nebulous nancies: looking for queers in pre-gay British film / Andy Medhurst -- Behind the masks: Anthony Asquith and Brian Desmond Hurst / Stephen Bourne -- An instrument with a flaming sword: conservative queerness in A Canterbury Tale / Alexander Doty -- Are there stars out tonight? / Keith Howes -- Sad and angry: Queers in 1960s British cinema / Robin Griffiths -- 'A comic monster of revue': Beryl Reid, Sister George and the performance of dykery / Lizzie Thynne -- 'Come and have a bathe!': landscaping the queer utopia / Michael Williams -- Intermingling under controlled conditions: the queerness of Prick Up Your Ears / Kenneth MacKinnon -- Terence Davies and the Unheimlich home movie / Jim Ellis -- More jiggery than pokery: Derek Jarman's Edward II / Raymond Armstrong -- Beyond the pale: the politics of Neil Jordan's The Crying Game / Andrew Moor -- 'It's my nature': AIDS narratives and the moral re-branding of queerness in the mid-1990s / Gregory Woods -- Beautiful thing: British queer cinema, positive unoriginality and the everyday / Ros Jennings -- Taming Oscar Wilde: queerness, heritage and stardom / Glyn Davis -- An interview with Lisa Gornick: reflections on a 'first draft' film about love and its labels / Ani Ritchie