Simon Amstell (R): Benjamin

UK 2019, engl. OF, dt. UT, 85 Min., € 17.99
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Salzgeber - gay classics
Sieben Jahre hat der ambitionierte Nachwuchsregisseur Benjamin an seinem zweiten Spielfilm gearbeitet und dem Projekt alles andere untergeordnet. »Kein Selbst« ist ein autobiografisches Drama über Liebe und Einsamkeit, in dem er selbst die Hauptrolle spielt. Am Vorabend der Premiere lernt er in einer Bar den charismatischen französischen Sänger Noah kennen und fühlt sich wie magisch zu ihm hingezogen. Doch als ... Weiterlesen

Pierre et Gilles: Le goût du cinéma

F 2019, 80 S., geb., € 39.95
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Couleurs Contemporaines
Spektakuläre Filmstills mit den großen Stars der Leinwand - von Pierre et Gilles zu aufregenden Kunstwerken verfremdet.

Claudio Macor: The Tailor-Made Man

A Play. UK 2017, 111 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Oberon
William »Billy« Haines was a popular silent screen MGM movie star who was fired by Louis B. Mayer because he was gay and refused to give up his lifelong partner, Jimmie Shields, and to marry the silent screen vamp Pola Negri. As punishment, his films were removed from release and sealed in the MGM vaults never to be seen again, ... Weiterlesen

Daniela Shreir (ed.): Another Gaze

magazine, € 10.00
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Another Gaze is a feminist film journal, founded in January 2016, and established to highlight the gender inequality of the film industry and amplify the voices of great, often overlooked, filmmakers who identify as women.

Boyd McDonald: Cruising the Movies

A Sexual Guide to Oldies on TV. USA 2015, 304 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
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MIT Press
»Cruising the Movies« was Boyd McDonald's »sexual guide« to televised cinema, originally published by the Gay Presses of New York in 1985. A compendium of real-life sexual stories that is part pornography, part ethnography - McDonald in his film writing reveals both his studious and sardonic sides. Many of the texts in »Cruising the Movies« were inspired by McDonald's attentive ... Weiterlesen

Jae: Just Physical

D 2015, 271 pp., brochure, € 16.90
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Ylva Verlag
After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, twenty-five-year-old Jill Corrigan takes herself off the romantic market. Not wanting to become a burden to a potential partner, she focuses on her career as an actress instead. On the set of a disaster movie, she meets stunt woman Kristine »Crash« Patterson, whose easy smile instantly makes Jill wish things were different. Meanwhile, Crash ... Weiterlesen

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