The Boys in the Band : Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics /
The Boys in the Band's debut was revolutionary for its fictional but frank presentation of a male homosexual subculture in Manhattan. Based on Mart Crowley's hit Off-Broadway play from 1968, the film's two-hour running time approximates real time, unfolding at a birthday party attende...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
2016.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : On returning to The boys in the band / Matt Bell
- Let's hear a round of applause for the camps in the band / Steven Cohan
- "Turning" : alcohol and affect in The boys in the band / Joe Wlodarz
- Gothic spatiality and the limits of gay visibility in The boys in the band / Ryan Powell
- Closet dramas : masculinity and claustrophobia in William Friedkin's films / Nick Davis
- "Who does she hope to be?" : celluloid ghosts, queer utopias, and The boys onstage / James Wilson
- The boys in the city : disintegration, transformation, and the cinematic flash in William Friedkin's New York City films (1970-80) / David A. Gerstner
- "Nobody's goddamn business but my own" : Leonard Frey and the politics of gay and Jewish visibility in the 1970s / Stephen Vider
- "Beware the hostile fag" : acidic intimacies and gay male consciousness-raising in The boys in the band / Ramzi Fawaz
- "A credit to the homosexual" : The boys in the band and the appearances of queer debt / Matthew Tinkcom
- The tragedy and hope of love between gay men : The boys in the band and the emotionality of gay love in the 1960s and '70s / J. Todd Ormsbee
- The sounds of silence : acoustics and politics / Amy Villarejo.