Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually
featured queer content and characters. Depicted covertly at first,
these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent
years, most notably in such films as Philadelphia, Boys Don't Cry,
and Brokeback Mountain. In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema:
Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart explores both latent and
manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from
the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Hart examines films
pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as
transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer
teens, and others. Throughout, this book continually reminds
readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate,
reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of normalcy,
deviance, and social otherness, in ways that frequently have
real-and sometimes detrimental-effects on actual people.Covering a
range of films, including From Here to Eternity, The Boys in the
Band, Saturday Night Fever, Cruising, Point Break, The Doom
Generation, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinsey,
Brokeback Mountain, Transamerica, and Shortbus, this book shows not
only how much has changed since the mid-20th century, but also how
much has (problematically) remained the same. Queer Males in
Contemporary Cinema provides perceptive insights for students and
academics interested in film history, cultural studies, gender
studies, media studies, popular culture, and LGBT studies.
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