Emanuel Levy: Gay Directors, Gay Films?

Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters. USA 2015, 392 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 25.95
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Columbia University Press
Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors (Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters), this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of view. For most of the 20th century, gay characters and gay themes were both ... Weiterlesen

Cindy Patton: L.A. Plays Itself / Boys in the Sand

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2014, 160 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A »Queer Film Classic« on two groundbreaking gay films from the early 1970s, both of which exemplify the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. »L.A. Plays Itself« and »Boys in the Sand« were both gay art house porn films released within months of each other at a theatre in New York in 1972. »L.A. ... Weiterlesen

Susan L. Mizruchi: Brando's Smile

His Life, Thought, and Work. UK 2014, 432 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 27.95
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W. W. Norton
Marlon Brando is only seen as the movie star, the hunk, the man of scandals. There was another Brando: the man who collected thousands of books - the man who rewrote scripts, trimming his lines to make them sharper - the man who consciously used his body and employed the objects around him to create believable characters. The author ... Weiterlesen

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart: Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema

Becoming Visible. USA/UK 2013, 183 pp., brochure, € 45.99
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Scarecrow
Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as »Philadelphia«, »Boys Don't Cry«, and »Brokeback Mountain«. The author explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the ... Weiterlesen

B. Ruby Rich: New Queer Cinema

The Director's Cut. USA 2013, 322 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Duke University Press
B. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the »Village Voice« in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS. The genre has grown to include ... Weiterlesen

Stephen Farthing (Hg.): Derek Jarman: Die Skizzenbücher

D 2013, 256 S., 400 Abb., geb., € 49.34
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Deutscher Kunstverlag
Die Filme des schwulen Regisseurs Derek Jarman erheben den ästhetischen Anspruch eines Kunstwerks: Spielfilme wie »Caravaggio«, »Edward II« oder »Sebastiane« inszenieren eine schwule Ästhetik, sie bestechen durch ihre Dramatik und ihre Magie. In etwa 30 Skizzenbüchern hielt Jarman seit den 1970er Jahren mit Zeichnungen die Einfälle für seine Filmsets fest und setzte Dialogfetzen, Textfragmente oder Gedankensplitter daneben. In der Gleichwertigkeit ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Hansford: Dressing Marilyn

How a Hollywood Icon was Styled by William Travilla. USA 2012, 192 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 27.95
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Hal Leonard
In the history of Hollywood, has any image ever titillated the public's imagination as much as the iconic one of Marilyn Monroe in »The Seven Year Itch«, her white dress blowing up to reveal, well, pretty much everything? That moment remains indelible to movie fans and glamour addicts, William Travilla, one of Hollywood's most sought-after costume designers, created not ... Weiterlesen

Scotty Bowers: Full Service

My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. UK 2012, 288 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 19.95
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Atlantic
Newly discharged from the Marines after WWII, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, especially in his military uniform, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. In his 30 years ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Jubilee

Six Film Scripts. USA 2011, 226 pp., brochure, € 17.79
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University of Minnesota Press
From the early 1970s until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: »Akenaten«, »Jubilee«, »Bob-Up-A-Down«, »B Movie: Little England/A Time of Hope«, »Neutron«, and »Sod 'Em« - five of these films haven't made it to the screen yet. For some, Jarman was much of a Renaissance man, aggressively ... Weiterlesen

Susan Knabe and Wendy G. Pearson: Zero Patience

CAN 2011, 183pp. with b&w film stills, brochure, € 15.99
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient Zero, the male flight attendant accused in Randy Shilts' book »And the Band Played on« of bringing the AIDS crisis to North America. This book provides a guided tour of the ... Weiterlesen

William E. Jones: Halsted Plays Himself

USA 2011, 216 pp. with numerous b/w + color photographs, hardbound, € 39.95
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MIT Press - Semiotext(e)
Fred Halsted's »L.A. Plays Itself« (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering »new information for me«. Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished L.A. that harbored a long-gone gay lifestyle at a volatile point in time ... Weiterlesen

Will Aitken: Death in Venice

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2011, 189 pp. with b&w filmstills, brochure, € 13.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel, about a middle-aged heterosexual artist (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes the film's cultural impact and provides a vivid ... Weiterlesen

Michael Gregg Michaud: Sal Mineo

USA 2011, 422 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 19.95
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Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his turn opposite James Dean in »Rebel Without a Cause« and his tragic murder at the age of 37. Finally, in this biography filled with interviews with both Mineo's closest male and female lovers, the biographer tells the full story of this young actor's life, charting his meteoric rise to fame, turbulent career, ... Weiterlesen

William R. Handley (ed.): The Brokeback Book

From Story to Cultural Phenomenon. USA/UK 2011, 386 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 25.95
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An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, »Brokeback Mountain« was a global cultural phenomenon even before it became the highest grossing gay-themed drama in film history. Few films have inspired as much passion and debate, or produced as many contradictory responses, from online homage to late-night parody. In this collection, writers, journalists, scholars, and ordinary ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Hammer: Hammer!

Making Movies out of Sex and Life. USA 2010, 281 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 27.95
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Feminist Press
»Hammer!« is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Dancing Ledge

USA 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Minnesota Press
From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. Accompanied by nearly one hundred photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in »Dancing Ledge« provide intimate and incredibly vivid glimpses ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Kicking the Pricks

USA 2010, 251 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 16.95
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University of Minnesota Press
The provocative title of the 4th volume of Jarman's journals suggests a look back in anger and defiance of the conventional. It is, but it is also rich in wit, intellect, and a clearly articulated aesthetic. Written while editing his film »The Last of England« and originally entitled that in Britain, this 1st American edition goes by the uncompromising title ... Weiterlesen

Donald Spoto: Possessed - The Life of Joan Crawford

USA 2010, 336pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 21.99
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Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. The biographer here goes beyond the popular caricature - the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, »Mommie Dearest« - to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman, her dazzling career, ... Weiterlesen