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Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain
Matthew Tinkcom
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Description for Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain
Paperback. An examination of the field of queer theory and its relevance to the film Brokeback Mountain Series: Film Theory in Practice. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain examines queer theory as it has emerged in the past three decades and discusses how Brokeback Mountain can be understood through the terms of this field of scholarship and activism. Organized into two parts, in the first half the author discusses key canonical texts within queer theory, including the work of writers as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. He provides an historical account of the questions these scholars have posed to our understanding of sexualities-both normative and non-normative-in the historical past and in contemporary life, as well as a discussion of the ... Read more
Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain examines queer theory as it has emerged in the past three decades and discusses how Brokeback Mountain can be understood through the terms of this field of scholarship and activism. Organized into two parts, in the first half the author discusses key canonical texts within queer theory, including the work of writers as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. He provides an historical account of the questions these scholars have posed to our understanding of sexualities-both normative and non-normative-in the historical past and in contemporary life, as well as a discussion of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Film Theory in Practice
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781501318825
SKU
V9781501318825
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About Matthew Tinkcom
Matthew Tinkcom is Associate Professor of Communication, Culture and Technology and Affiliate Faculty of English at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of Working Like a Homosexual: Camp: Capital, Cinema and Grey Gardens, co-editor of Key Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies as well as articles that have appeared in Cinema Journal, South Atlantic Quarterly and collections from Duke ... Read more
Reviews for Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain
Strongly recommended both for students coming to queer scholarship for the first time, and to those in Media Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies interested in how contemporary thinking around sexuality and gender might be explored in a piece of relatively mainstream cinema.
CINEJ Cinema Journal
I can think of no other queer-film scholar to write this book. ... Read more
CINEJ Cinema Journal
I can think of no other queer-film scholar to write this book. ... Read more