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The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema »

Authors: Thomas Waugh, Waugh, John Greyson
ISBN-13: 9780822324683, ISBN-10: 0822324687
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Thomas Waugh

Thomas Waugh is Professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. In addition to his many published articles and reviews, he is the author of Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall.

John Greyson is a prizewinning filmmaker whose work includes the features Urinal, Zero Patience, Lilies, and Uncut, as well as numerous short videos.

Book Synopsis

A selection of writings on gay and lesbian cinema by one of the pioneers of queer film criticism.

Gay Times

Witty, ironic, and always passionate. . . . An inspiration to countless would-be gay film journalist and an invaluable study source for queer film buffs.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Films by Gays for Gays: A Very Natural Thing, Word Is Out, and The Naked Civil Servant (1977)	14
	Gays, Straights, Film, and the Left: A Dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) (1977)	34
	Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1976-77)	43
	A Fag-Spotter's Guide to Eisenstein (1977)	59
	Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1978)	69
	Medical Thrills: Born a Man...Let Me Die a Woman (1978-79)	72
	Marnau: The Films Behind the Man (1979)	74
	An Unromantic Fiction: I'm Not from Here, by Harvey Marks (1979)	86
	The Gay Nineties, the Gay Seventies: Samperi's Ernesto and von Praunheim's Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979)	88
	Montgomery Clift Biographies: Stars and Sex (1979-80)	93
	Gay Cinema, Slick vs. Real: Chant d'amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man (1980)	101
	Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam (1980)	109
	A Saturday Night Surprise: Burin des Roziers's Blue Jeans (1980)	114
	Caligula (1981)	117
	Taxis and Toilets: Ripploh and His Brothers (1981)	122
	Bright Lights in the Night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and Others (1981)	126
	Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes (1982)	131
	Two Strong Entries, One Dramatic Exit: Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and Querelle (1982)	135
	Hollywood's Change of Heart? (Porky's and The Road Warrior) (1982)	141
	Dreams, Cruises, and Cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutmann's Nagua (1983)	145
	Hauling an Old Corpse Out of Hitchcock's Trunk: Rope (1983)	148
	Sex beyond Neon: Third World Gay Films? (1985)	151
	Fassbinder Fiction: A New Biography (1986)	156
	Ashes and Diamonds in the Year of the Queer: Decline of the American Empire, Anne Trister, A Virus Knows No Morals, and Man of Ashes (1986)	161
	The Kiss of the Maricon, or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema (1986-87)	172
	Laws of Desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera (1987)	187
	Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-bye (1988)	195
	Beauty and the Beast, Take Two (1988)	208
	Whipping Up a Cinema (1989)	214
	Erotic Self-Images in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama (1988, 1992)	218
	In Memoriam: Vito Russo, 1946-1990 (1991)	235
	We're Talking, Vulva, or, My Body Is Not a Metaphor (1995, 1999)	237
	Walking on Tippy Toes: Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the Post-Stonewall Period 1969-1984 (1995-97)	246
	Archeology and Censorship (1997)	272
	Selected Additional Works	297
	Index	299

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