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The Boys in the Band : Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media SeriesPublisher: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (335 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780814341544
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Boys in the BandDDC classification:
  • 791.4372
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.B727 .B697 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Returning to The Boys in the Band -- Cinematic Transitions -- 1. Let's Hear a Round of Applause for the Camps in the Band -- 2. "Turning": Alcohol and Affect in The Boys in the Band -- 3. Gothic Spatiality and the Limits of Gay Visibility in The Boys in the Band -- 4. Closet Dramas: Masculinity and Claustrophobia in William Friedkin's Films -- Historical Thresholds -- 5. "Who Does She Hope to Be?": Celluloid Ghosts, Queer Utopias, and The Boys Onstage -- 6. The Boys in the City: Disintegration, Transformation, and the Cinematic Flash in William Friedkin's New York City Films (1970-80) -- 7. "Nobody's Goddamn Business but My Own": Leonard Frey and the Politics of Gay and Jewish Visibility in the 1970s -- Queer-Political Crises -- 8. "Beware the Hostile Fag": Acidic Intimacies and Gay Male Consciousness-Raising in The Boys in the Band -- 9. "A Credit to the Homosexual": The Boys in the Band and the Appearances of Queer Debt -- 10. 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 -- 11. The Sounds of Silence: Acoustics and Politics -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: William Friedkin's 1970 motion picture The Boys in the Band is perfectly poised for the wide-ranging reassessment and innovative readings that this edited volume accomplishes.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Returning to The Boys in the Band -- Cinematic Transitions -- 1. Let's Hear a Round of Applause for the Camps in the Band -- 2. "Turning": Alcohol and Affect in The Boys in the Band -- 3. Gothic Spatiality and the Limits of Gay Visibility in The Boys in the Band -- 4. Closet Dramas: Masculinity and Claustrophobia in William Friedkin's Films -- Historical Thresholds -- 5. "Who Does She Hope to Be?": Celluloid Ghosts, Queer Utopias, and The Boys Onstage -- 6. The Boys in the City: Disintegration, Transformation, and the Cinematic Flash in William Friedkin's New York City Films (1970-80) -- 7. "Nobody's Goddamn Business but My Own": Leonard Frey and the Politics of Gay and Jewish Visibility in the 1970s -- Queer-Political Crises -- 8. "Beware the Hostile Fag": Acidic Intimacies and Gay Male Consciousness-Raising in The Boys in the Band -- 9. "A Credit to the Homosexual": The Boys in the Band and the Appearances of Queer Debt -- 10. 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 -- 11. The Sounds of Silence: Acoustics and Politics -- Contributors -- Index.

William Friedkin's 1970 motion picture The Boys in the Band is perfectly poised for the wide-ranging reassessment and innovative readings that this edited volume accomplishes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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