Selected Books from UCLA Library
Anders Als Die Andern by ISBN: 0228018676Date: 2023-08-04Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) stunned audiences with its straightforward depiction of queer love. Banned and partially destroyed after the rise of Nazism, the film was lost until the 1970s and only about one-third of its original footage is preserved today. Ervin Malakaj sees the film's portrayal of the pain of living life queerly as generating a complex emotional identification in modern spectators, even those living in apparently friendlier circumstances.
Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema by ISBN: 9780813533759Date: 2004-01-20Yosef's critique of the construction of masculinities and queerness in Israeli cinema and culture also serves as a model for the investigation of the role of male sexuality within national culture.
Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History by ISBN: 9781478003397Date: 2019-04-04Quinlan Miller reframes American television history by tracing a camp aesthetic and the common appearance of trans queer gender characters in both iconic and lesser known sitcoms throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas by ISBN: 9780824829094Date: 2006-08-31Celluloid Comrades offers a cogent analytical introduction to the representation of male homosexuality in Chinese cinemas within the last decade. It posits that representations of male homosexuality in Chinese film have been polyphonic and multifarious, posing a challenge to monolithic and essentialized constructions of both 'Chineseness' and 'homosexuality.'
Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by ISBN: 9781914420580Date: 2024-07-09Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence of a true trans-authored cinema, Corpses, Fools and Monsters spans everything from musicals to body horror to avant garde experimental film to tell the story of the trans film image.
Desire after Dark by ISBN: 9780253053817Date: 2021-03-02Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a normative world. Owens contends that occult media has risen to prominence during the past 60 years as a way of exposing and working through cultural crises about queerness.
The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film by ISBN: 9781538153901Date: 2022-10-15Explores works from the past fifty years in order to not only discuss how LGBTQIA+ characters are portrayed in American film, but also how these portrayals affect viewers.
Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire by ISBN: 9780822377429Date: 2014-01-20Ethereal Queer offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s.
Gender and Sexuality in East German Film: Intimacy and Alienation by ISBN: 9781787442504Date: 2018-05-15This is the first scholarly collection in English or German to fully address the treatment of gender and sexuality in the productions of DEFA across genres and in light of social, political, and cultural contexts. The volume presents the work of leading scholars on the GDR and allows students and scholars to examine East German film with respect to the acceptance, rejection, or nuanced negotiation of ideas of proper male and female behavior espoused by the country's brand of socialism.
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 by ISBN: 9780813574837Date: 2016-02-26Laura Horak spent a decade scouring film archives worldwide, looking at American films made between 1908 and 1934, and what she discovered could revolutionize our understanding of gender roles in the early twentieth century. Questioning the assumption that cross-dressing women were automatically viewed as transgressive, she finds that these figures were popularly regarded as wholesome and regularly appeared onscreen in the 1910s, thus lending greater respectability to the fledgling film industry.
The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres by ISBN: 9783030977924Date: 2022-05-03The book analyzes transgender narratives in scripted visual media from the 1960s to 2010s across a variety of genres. Already ingrained with their own ideological expectations, genres shift the framing of the trans character, particularly the relevance of their gender difference for cisgender characters and society.
Homosexuality and Italian Cinema: From the Fall of Fascism to the Years of Lead by ISBN: 9781137565921Date: 2017-12-04Explores cinematic representations of homosexuality and their significance in a wider cultural struggle in Italy involving society, cinema, and sexuality between the 1940s and 1970s.
Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures by ISBN: 9780822335139Date: 2005-04-19Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations.
Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness by ISBN: 9781137454218Date: 2016-04-08Uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through analysis of musical score.
Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory by ISBN: 9781474435369Date: 2019-02-12By offering close readings of key contemporary films such as Blue Is the Warmest Colour, Water Lilies and Carol alongside a broader filmography encompassing over 300 other films released between 1927 and 2018, the book provokes new ways of understanding a changing field of representation.
Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal by ISBN: 9781789382808Date: 2020-11-29Open access e-book. A look at the emergence of queer women characters in popular storytelling and the wide-ranging effects of this mainstream representation.
LGBTQ Film Festivals: Curating Queerness by ISBN: 9789048543892Date: 2020-04-06In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBT festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical apparatuses.
New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader by ISBN: 0748617248Date: 2004-06-03Coined 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 proliferation of 'queer' images and themes within the mainstream. But what constituted New Queer Cinema then and now? And was it political gains, cultural momentum or market forces that determined its evolution?
The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema by ISBN: 9780190877996Date: 2021-11-26Queer media is not one thing but an ensemble of at least four moving variables: history, gender and sexuality, geography, and medium. Addressing “history” not as dots on a progressive spectrum but as an uneven story of struggle, the writers in this volume stress that queer cinema did not appear miraculously at one moment but arrived on currents throughout the century-long history of the medium.
Paris Is Burning: A Queer Film Classic by ISBN: 9781551525198Date: 2013-12-10Pays homage to the award-winning 1991 documentary Paris Is Burning, which looks at the struggle of African-American and Latino participants in the 1980s New York drag ball scene.
Performing Place in French and Italian Queer Documentary Film by ISBN: 9783319967004Date: 2018-10-23This book explores the space of queer documentary through the modernist optic of Marcel Proust's 'lieu factice' (artificial place), a perspective that problematizes the location of place in a post-postmodern world with a dispersed sense of the real.
Queer/Adaptation: A Collection of Critical Essays by ISBN: 9783030053055Date: 2019-03-06The book includes discussion of a wide variety of texts, including opera, classic film, genre fiction, documentary, musicals, literary fiction, low-budget horror, camp classics, and experimental texts, providing a comprehensive and interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad ways in which queer and adaptation overlap.
Queer African Cinemas by ISBN: 1478022639Date: 2022-02-04Lindsey B. Green-Simms examines films produced by and about queer Africans in the first two decades of the twenty-first century in an environment of increasing antiqueer violence, efforts to criminalize homosexuality, and other state-sanctioned homophobia.
Queerbaiting and Fandom: Teasing Fans Through Homoerotic Possibilities by ISBN: 9781609386719Date: 2019-12-01In this first-ever comprehensive examination of queerbaiting, fan studies scholar Joseph Brennan and his contributors examine cases that shed light on the sometimes exploitative industry practice of teasing homoerotic possibilities that, while hinted at, never materialize in the program narratives.
Queer Cinema in the World by ISBN: 9780822373674Date: 2016-11-17Offering a new theory of queer world cinema, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how it intersects with shifting ideals of global politics and cinema aesthetics to demonstrate its potential to disturb dominant modes of world making and to forge spaces of queer belonging.
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom by ISBN: 9780813591759Date: 2018-02-27Open access e-book. Examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building.
The Queer Film Festival: Popcorn and Politics by ISBN: 9781137584380Date: 2017-01-05With over 220 events worldwide and some of the bigger budgets exceeding $1 million, the queer film festival has grown to become a staple event in all cosmopolitan cities' arts calendars. While activism was instrumental in establishing these festivals, the pink dollar has been a deciding factor in its financial sustainability.
Queer Mexico: Cinema and Television Since 2000 by ISBN: 9780814342756Date: 2017-10-16Provides critical analysis of both mainstream and independent audiovisual works, many of them little known, produced in Mexico since the turn of the twenty-first century. In the book, author Paul Julian Smith aims to tease out the symbiotic relationship between culture and queerness in Mexico.
Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film by ISBN: 1526151804Date: 2020-09-08This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. The book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. Examines 3 main themes: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place.
Queer Representations in Chinese-Language Film and the Cultural Landscape by ISBN: 9789048540075Date: 2020-09-15This book provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories.
Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture by ISBN: 9780822378761Date: 2000-01-13Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "color line," the dominant system of racial distinction during this period.
Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema by ISBN: 9780429264245Date: 2020-08-27Open access e-book. Offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants and refugees.
Queering the South on Screen by ISBN: 9780820356525Date: 2020-04-22Examines the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Queer Theory in Film and Fiction (ALT 36: African Literature Today) by ISBN: 9781847011848Date: 2018-11-16In this issue of ALT, guest editor John Hawley has sampled the ongoing conversations, in both African writing and in the analysis of contemporary African cinema, to show how queer studies can break with old concepts and theories and point the way to new gender perspectives on literary and cinematic output.
Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema by ISBN: 9780252051302Date: 2019-06-16Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema.
A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood by ISBN: 9780520299658Date: 2023-02-07A Queer Way of Feeling gathers an unexplored archive of fan-made scrapbooks, letters, diaries, and photographs to explore girls coming of age in the United States in the 1910s used cinema to forge a foundational language of female nonconformity, intimacy, and kinship.
Reality TV and Queer Identities: Sexuality, Authenticity, Celebrity by ISBN: 9783030142148Date: 2019-05-08Examines queer visibility in reality television, which is arguably the most prolific space of gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer media representation. It explores almost two decades of reality programming, from Big Brother to I Am Cait, American Idol to RuPaul's Drag Race, arguing that the specific conventions of reality TV--its intimacy and emotion, its investments in celebrity and the ideal of authenticity--have inextricably shaped the ways in which queer people have become visible in reality shows.
Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage by ISBN: 9781478009139Date: 2020-05-01Through innovative readings of gay and lesbian films, Lee Wallace offers a provocative argument that queer experiments in domesticity have profoundly reshaped heterosexual marriage to such an extent that now all marriage is gay marriage.
Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change by ISBN: 9781478004509Date: 2019-02-14Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change, thereby opening up new means to understand transgender ontologies and epistemologies.
Transmasculinity on Television by ISBN: 9781003204404Date: 2022-05-12This book explores how television and streaming services portray transgender characters who identify as male or nonbinary in television media.
Aesthetics, Ethics and Trauma in the Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar by ISBN: 9781474427722Date: 2017Reconceptualising Almodóvar's films as theoretical and political resources, this innovative book examines a neglected aspect of his cinema: its engagement with the traumatic past, with subjective and collective memory, and with the ethical and political meanings that result from this engagement.
Archaic Modernism: Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini by ISBN: 9780814343111Date: 2020-11-10Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: Oedipus Rex (1967), Medea (1969), and Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970/1973).
Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame by ISBN: 9780814348604Date: 2021-08-24Explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer's full body of work as a case study allows readers to see why a much broader notion of feminist production and artistic process is necessary to understand art made by women in the past half century. Hammer's work--classically queer and politically feminist--presses at the edges of each of those notions, pushing beyond the frames that would not contain her dynamic artistic endeavors.
Céline Sciamma: Portraits by ISBN: 9781474440554Date: 2021-10-20This is the first book-length study of Céline Sciamma's films, focusing on the relationship of her work to the visual arts, and exploring the relevance of feminist theory to her unique perspective.
Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy: Sexual Disorientation in the Films of Tsai Ming-Liang by ISBN: 9781452967790Date: 2022-09-27Nicholas de Villiers argues that Tsai expands and revises the notion of queerness by engaging with the sexuality of characters who are migrants, tourists, diasporic, or otherwise displaced. Ultimately, de Villiers explores how Tsai's films help us understand queerness in terms of spatial, temporal, and sexual disorientation.
Directed by Dorothy Arzner by ISBN: 9780585019550Date: 1994-01-01Mayne reviews Arzner's 16-year directing career, offering a feminist reading of her films that emphasizes their preoccupation with communities of women and the "performance" of gender, as well as their questioning of heterosexuality.
Hammer! Making Movies Out of Life and Sex by ISBN: 9781558616141Date: 2010-03-01The first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired generations of queer, feminist and avant-garde artists and filmmakers.
Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by ISBN: 9781478008286Date: 2020-08-07For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism Cait McKinney traces how these women developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives that formed the foundation for their work.
Lana and Lilly Wachowski by ISBN: 9780252050879Date: 2018-11-15Cáel M. Keegan views the Wachowskis' films as an approach to trans experience that maps a transgender journey and the promise we might learn "to sense beyond the limits of the given world." Keegan reveals how the filmmakers take up the relationship between identity and coding, inheritance and belonging, and how transgender becoming connects to a utopian vision of a post-racial order. Along the way, he theorizes a trans aesthetic that explores the plasticity of cinema to create new social worlds, new temporalities, and new sensory inputs and outputs.
Martial Law Melodrama by ISBN: 0520974018Date: 2020-01-07Lino Brocka (1939-1991) was one of Asia and the Global South's most celebrated filmmakers. A versatile talent, he was at once a bankable director of genre movies, an internationally acclaimed auteur of social films, a pioneer of queer cinema, and an outspoken critic of Ferdinand Marcos's autocratic regime. José B. Capino examines the figuration of politics in the Filipino director's movies, illuminating their historical contexts, allegorical tropes, and social critiques.
Reframing Todd Haynes: Feminism's Indelible Mark by ISBN: 1478022620Date: 2022-02-07Todd Haynes, who emerged in the early 1990s as a foundational figure in New Queer Cinema, has gained critical recognition for his outsider perspective. Reframing Todd Haynes reassesses his work in light of his long-standing feminist commitments and his exceptional career as a director of women's films. They present multiple perspectives on Haynes's film and television work and on his role as an artist-activist who draws on academic theorizations of gender and cinema.
Sisters in the Life: A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making by ISBN: 9780822371854Date: 2018-03-15Assembling a range of interviews, essays, and conversations, Sisters in the Life narrates the history of African American lesbian media-making during the past thirty years, thereby documenting the important and influential work of this group of understudied and underappreciated artists.
Turning the Page: Storytelling as Activism in Queer Film and Media by ISBN: 9780813593739Date: 2018-07-11Introduces readers to three nonprofit organizations that, in very different ways, have each positively transformed the queer media landscape.
What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor by ISBN: 9780813179315Date: 2020-06-23Elyce Rae Helford examines how Cukor's award-winning films--titles including My Fair Lady and The Philadelphia Story--as well as his lesser-known films engage Hollywood masculinity and gender performativity through camp, drag, and mixed genres.
