Justin Vicari

Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema

Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things, including the need to adapt to changing environments, the questioning of rigidly traditional male roles and identities, the breakdown and regeneration of the structures of families, the limitations of monogamy, and the stubborn affirmation of romantic love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780786461608
• ISBN-10: 0786461608
• Artikelnr.: 31582807

Autorenporträt

Justin Vicari is an award-winning poet, essayist and film writer.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Introduction: Searching for Bob Elkin     
Part 1. Personal Visions
1. Fifteen Minutes of the Future: François Ozon's A Summer Dress     
2. To Bend Without Breaking: Bisexuality and Adaptation in the Films of
André Téchiné     
3. Tentative, Tender ... and Trendy? Gregg Araki's Teen Trilogy     
4. Rock Star Bisexuality in Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine     
5. For Whom the Bi Tolls: Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul and Ozon's Water
Drops on Burning Rocks     
Part 2. Alone and with Others
6. Making the Man: The Bisexual Hero     
7. Illegible Patriarchies: Bisexualizing the Family     
8. Fazes and Mazes: Inside the Triangle     
Part 3. Matters of Love and Death
9. The Schoolboy Crush and Its Ambiguous Object     
10. Turning It On and Off: "Bi for Pay"     
11. Allegories of AIDS     
12. In His Wake: The Strange Power of the Dead Bisexual     
13. At the Limits of Heterosexuality: The Woman's Viewpoint in Anatomy of
Hell     
Conclusion: "It's All Good"     
Chapter Notes     
Works Cited     
Index