Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-298) and index.
Contents:
Films by gays for gays: A Very Natural Thing, Word is Out, and The Naked Civil Servant -- Gays, straights, film, and the left: a dialogue (with Chuck Kleinhans) -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder -- A fag-spotter's guide to Eisenstein -- Derek Jarman's Sebastiane -- Medical thrills: Born A Man... Let Me Die a Woman -- Murnau: the films behind the man -- An unromantic fiction: I'm Not From Here, by Harvey Marks -- The gay nineties, the gay seventies: Samperi's Ernesto and von Praunheim's Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts -- Montgomery Clift biographies: stars and sex -- Gay cinema, slick vs. real: Chant d'amour, Army of Lovers, We Were One Man -- Nighthawks, by Ron Peck and Paul Hallaam -- A Saturday night surprise: Burin des Roziers's Blue Jeans -- Caligula -- Taxis and toilets: Ripploh and his brothers -- Bright lights in the night: Pasolini, Schroeter, and others -- Patty Duke and tasteful dykes -- Two strong entries, one dramatic exit: Luc ou la part des choses, Another Way, and Querelle -- Hollywood's change of heart? (Porky's and The Road Warrior) -- Dreams, cruises, and cuddles in Tel Aviv: Amos Gutmann's Nagua -- Hauling an old corpse out of Hitchcock's trunk: Rope -- Sex beyond Neon: Third world gay films? -- Fassbinder fiction: a new biography -- Ashes and diamonds in the year of the queer: decline of the American Empire, Anne Trister, A Virus Knows No Morals, and Man of Ashes -- The kiss of the maricon, or gay imagery in Latin American cinema -- Laws of desire: Maurice, Law of Desire, and Vera -- Two great gay filmmakers: hello and goodbye -- Beauty and the beast, take two -- Whipping up a cinema -- Erotic self-images in the gay male AIDS melodrama -- In memoriam: Vito Russo -- We're talking, vulva, or, my body is not a metaphor -- Walkin on tippy toes: lesbian and gay liberation documentary of the post-stonewall period 1969-1984 -- Archeology and censorship.
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