New Queer Cinema: Beyond the Celluloid Closet

Robin Griffiths

October, 2006
Paper, 144 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-905674-00-8
Wallflower Press

This is a timely and comprehensive introduction to one of the most "cutting-edge" film movements of the 1990s. Tracing its impact on representations of gender and sexuality in both independent and mainstream cinema culture, this volume explores how lesbian, gay, and queer filmmaking radically reclaimed or subverted the negative stereotypes, genres, and narratives of the past, envisioning an unapologetic and irreverent new horizon beyond hetero-normative politics, pleasure, and identity. Films include: Poison (1991), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and The Living End (1992).

Related Subjects

• Film
• Gay and Lesbian Studies

About the Author

Robin Griffiths is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Gloucestershire. He is editor of British Queer Cinema and Queer Cinema in Europe.

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