Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index. Includes filmography (pages 144-146).
Contents:
Introduction: The oblique pragmatist's stratagems -- Creating the queer fairy tale -- Coming out, Cannes, and criticism - Reading Polly's "Perversities" -- Envisioning our futures.
Summary:
A Queer Film Classic on Canadian director Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, her quirky and hopeful first feature film which made its premiere at Cannes and won its Prix de la jeunesse. Presented as a "videotaped confession," it tells the story of Polly Vandersma, an unpretentious and introverted young woman who takes photographs as a hobby and works as a personal assistant to an elegant and sophisticated, but unsatisfied, art gallery director, Gabrielle St. Peres, whom she worships.--Provided by publisher
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