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Spectacular Passions - Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships (Paperback, 2)
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Spectacular Passions - Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships (Paperback, 2)
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The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and
readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural
landscape. Using psychoanalytic theory as his guide while
inflecting it with insights from both film theory and queer theory,
Brett Farmer moves beyond this cliche to develop an innovative
exploration of gay spectatorship. The result, "Spectacular
Passions, " reveals how cinema has been engaged by gay men as a
vital forum for "fantasmatic performance"--in this case, the
production of specifically queer identities, practices, and
pleasures.
Building on the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasmatic, Farmer
works to depathologize gay male subjectivity. While discussing such
films as "Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Pirate, Suddenly Last
Summer, "and "Sunset Boulevard, "and stars ranging from Mae West to
Montgomery Clift, Farmer argues that the particularities of gay
men's social and psychic positionings motivate unique receptions of
and investments in film. The Hollywood musical, gay camp readings
of the extravagant female star, and the explicit homoeroticism of
the cinematic male body in gay fanzines are further proof, says
Farmer, of how the shifting libidinal profiles of homosexual desire
interact with the fantasy scenarios of Hollywood film to produce a
range of variable queer meanings.
This fascinating and provocative study makes a significant new
contribution to discussions of cinema, spectatorship, and
sexuality. As such, it will be welcomed by those in the fields of
film theory, queer theory, and cultural studies.
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