Queer Screen The Screen Reader

Queer Screen: A Screen Readerbrings together a selection of key articles on queer cinema published over the past two decades in the internationally renowned journal,Screen, with new introductory editorial material from Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street.Queer Screenfeatures scholarship which has contributed to the emergence of queer theory in the field of screen studies during the last fifteen years, demonstrating how writers in Screen have contributed to developments in queer theory as it relates to a wide range of popular and experimental films and videos. Written by authors with international reputations in the field, the articles span the period during which queer theory and queer studies emerged. The volume's deployment of the Screen archive enables readers to compare and contrast work produced at the various stages of the development of this field, and to track the ways in which work published inScreenwas part of its evolution.The book considers a wide range of case studies including popular films such asBoys Don't Cry, Alien Resurrection, Brief Encounter, Bound, andRope, as well as experimental films and videos by artists such as Richard Fung, Ulrike Ottinger, Sheila McLaughlin and Derek Jarman.Contributors:Michele Aaron, Jennifer Devere Brody, Peter Dickinson, Julia Erhart, Judith Halberstam, Ellis Hanson, Lisa Henderson, Teresa de Lauretis, Andy Medhurst, Josè Muoz, Julianne Pidduck, Jackie Stacey, Chris Straayer, Sarah Street, James Tweedie, Lee Wallace, Kristen Whissel, Patricia White.Jackie Staceyis Professor of Cultural Studies and Women's Studies in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her publications includeStar Gazing: Female Spectatorship and Hollywood Cinema(1994) andTeratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer(1997). She is co-editor ofOff-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies(1991),Romance Revisited(1993),Screen Histories Reader(1998) andThinking Through the Skin(2001) and co-author ofGlobal Nature, Global Culture(2000). She has been a co-editor of Screen since 1994.Sarah Streetis Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. Her publications includeCinema and State(1985);British National Cinema(1997);British Cinema in Documents(2000);European Cinema(2000);Moving Performance: British Stage and Screen(2000);Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA(2002),The Titanic in Myth and Memory(2004) andBlack Narcissus(2005). She has been a co-editor of Screen since 2001.Film Studies/Queer StudiesStreet, Sarah is the author of 'Queer Screen The Screen Reader', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415384308 and ISBN 0415384303.