Kathrin Dreckmann / Elfi Vomberg / Linnea Semmerli: Fringe of the Fringe

Queering Punk Media History. D 2023, 104 pp., brochure, € 42.00
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Hatje Cantz
Videos as media have always had close ties to art as well as everyday culture, and even to subcultural and countercultural movements in society. Artificial and music videos provide an immensely subversive potential. Artists and musicians are resistant to traditional values, transgress and fathom social norms and gender stereotypes. This volume explores artificial strategies in the context of punk history ... 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

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

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

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

Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince: 50 Years of Queer Cinema

500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made. USA 2010, 502 pp., brochure, € 23.99
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The world's production of 50 years of GLBTQ cinema has shattered the door to the celluloid closet. Thanks to this, and to a flood of classics re-released in DVD format, a brave new world of queer iconography has emerged for film junkies. This book documents these trends. From the tawdry to the beautiful, »The Love That Dared not Speak its ... Weiterlesen

Sean Griffin (ed.): Hetero

Queering Representations of Straightness. USA 2009, 270 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Just as feminist scholars have turned to considerations of masculinity and scholars of race have begun to consider whiteness as a category, this collection brings the insights of queer theory to bear on cinematic representations of straightness. Spanning decades and cultures, from silent Hollywood films to modern Mumbai cinema, the essays in this book uncover multiple forms of heterosexual desire ... Weiterlesen

David Bret: Clark Gable

Tormented Star. USA 2008, 287 pp., brochure, € 14.89
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Clarke Gable - the archetypal male of his era. He was named »King of Hollywood« in 1938. But as the author of this uncensored biography reveals, the star was not quite who he seemed. One of Gable's best-kept secrets was his bisexuality. Bret recounts Gable's failed marriages to women who turned a blind eye toward his affairs with actors Earl ... Weiterlesen

Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince: Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film

USA 2007, 474 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The world has witnessed an explosion, worldwide, in the quality and depth of gay and lesbian-themed films. Here, assembled into one comprehensive volume, is a rundown of the year's most intriguing gay, lesbian, and transgendered films, an illustrated guide what's Out, Outrageous, Provocative, and Proud. With reviews, photos, and commentaries on more than 140 gay and lesbian films, each released ... Weiterlesen

Eric Braun: Frightening the Horses

USA 2007, 256 pp., hardback, € 22.59
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Avoiding an overly dry and theoretical approach, the author celebrates the achievements of cinema's gay icons from the years before gay men and lesbians could be openly depicted on the screen - and carries the story right through the introduction of the Production Code in 1930, through the »undercover« gay icons of the 40s and 50s, to the sexual revolution ... Weiterlesen

William J. Mann: Kate

UK 2007, 621 pp., Pb, € 15.95
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On screen she played society girls, Spencer Tracy's sidekick, lionesses in winter. But the best character Katharine Hepburn ever created was Katharine Hepburn: a Connecticut Yankee, outspoken and elegant, bristling at Hollywood glitter. Hepburn won her 4th Oscar aged 74 and across seven decades in the public eye, she was a cut above the usual screen queen. Now, her biographer ... Weiterlesen

Farley Granger with Robert Calhoun: Include Me Out

USA 2007, 255 pp., hardbound, € 24.89
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Working with such creative visionaries as Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, and Nicholas Ray, Farley Granger was a celebrated figure in films like »Strangers on a Train«, »Rope«, »Senso«, and »They Live by Night«, bringing a memorable presence to the big screen. Behind his characters, however, he was and remains a complex man, full of whimsy as well as strength. Now, ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey P. Dennis: Queering Teen Culture

USA 2006, 221 pp., brochure, € 16.59
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Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing to, and fighting over teenage girls. But »Queering Teen Culture« analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to ... Weiterlesen

Gary M. Kramer: Independent Queer Cinema

USA 2006, 255 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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»Independent Queer Cinema« collects 100 of film critic Kramer's reviews and interviews that celebrate the latest »queer wave« of actors, writers and directors. From the US-hit »Kissing Jessica Stein« and the provocative gem »Come Undone«, to tantalising insights from Stephen Fry and Tilda Swinton - the book is a valuable reference guide as well as an entertaining compilation of Kramer's ... Weiterlesen

Charles Winecoff: Anthony Perkins

USA 2006, 449 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Paramount groomed him to replace James Dean and become Hollywood's hottest hertthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's »Psycho« killed that - and spawned an image of Anthony »Tony« Perkins that eerily paralleled his conflicted, fractured off-screen life. These performances overwhelmed Perkins's career - increasingly during the decades leading up to his death from AIDS at ... Weiterlesen

James Robert Parish: Katharine Hepburn - The Untold Story

USA 2005, 328 pp., hardcover, € 25.30
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One of the most singular performers of the 20th century, Hepburn was known as a no-nonsense woman who flouted the rules of stardom. Yet her biographer believes her mannish attitudes, attire, and manners were far more indicative of her sexual nature than a reflection of her role as a pioneering feminist. According to the biographer, Hepburn's offstage image as a ... Weiterlesen

Rob Epstein (R): The Celluloid Closet

USA 1995, engl.OF, dt.SF, dt.UT, 102 min., € 14.99
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Pro-fun
Was haben »Ben Hur« und »Laurel & Hardy« gemeinsam? Warum ist die Prügelei zwischen Montgomery Clift und John Wayne in »Red River« eine der erotischsten Szenen der Filmgeschichte? Die Antworten auf solche Fragen an die schwule Filmgeschichte gibt der Dokumentarfilm »The Celluloid Closet«. Die mehrfachen Oscar-Preisträger Epstein und Friedmann zeigen ihre Wahrnehmung von Lesben und Schwulen auf der Leinwand, durch ... Weiterlesen