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"America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
in the Movies, 2nd Edition" is a lively introduction to issues of
diversity as represented within the American cinema. Provides a
comprehensive overview of the industrial, socio-cultural, and
aesthetic factors that contribute to cinematic representations of
race, class, gender, and sexuality Includes over 100 illustrations,
glossary of key terms, questions for discussion, and lists for
further reading/viewing Includes new case studies of a number of
films, including "Crash, Brokeback Mountain, " and "Quinceanera"
From Thomas Edison's first cinematic experiments to contemporary
Hollywood blockbusters, Queer Images chronicles the representation
of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred
years of American film. The most up-to-date and comprehensive book
of its kind, it explores not only the ever-changing images of queer
characters onscreen, but also the work of queer filmmakers and the
cultural histories of queer audiences. Queer Images surveys a wide
variety of films, individuals, and subcultures, including the work
of discreetly homosexual filmmakers during Hollywood's Golden Age;
classical Hollywood's (failed) attempt to purge "sex perversion"
from films; the development of gay male camp in Hollywood cinema;
queer exploitation films and gay physique films; the queerness of
1960s Underground Film practice; independent lesbian documentaries
and experimental films; cinematic responses to the AIDS crisis; the
rise and impact of New Queer Cinema; the growth of LGBT film
festivals; and how contemporary Hollywood deals with queer issues.
This entertaining and insightful book reveals how the meaning of
sexual identity-as reflected on the silver screen-has changed a
great deal over the decades, and it celebrates both the pioneers
and contemporary practitioners of queer film in America. Queer
Images is an essential volume for film buffs and anyone interested
in sexuality and culture.
While supernatural events have become fairly commonplace on daytime
television in recent decades, Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC
between 1966 and 1971, pioneered this format when it blended the
vampires, werewolves, warlocks, and witches of fictional
Collinsport, Maine, with standard soap opera fare like alcoholism,
jealousy, and tangled love. In this volume, author Harry M.
Benshoff examines Dark Shadows, both during its initial run and as
an enduring cult phenomenon, to prove that the show was an
important precursor-or even progenitor-of today's phenomenally
popular gothic and fantasy media franchises like Twilight, Harry
Potter, and True Blood. Benshoff demonstrates that viewers of all
ages responded to the haunted world of Dark Shadows, making
unlikely stars out of the show's iconic characters-reluctant
vampire Barnabas Collins, playboy werewolf Quentin Collins,
vengeful witch Angelique DuVal, and vampire hunter Dr. Julia
Hoffman. Benshoff explores the cultural and industrial contexts of
the mid-1960s that gave rise to Dark Shadows and how the show
adapted nineteenth-century gothic novels and twentieth-century
horror films into a televised serial format. Benshoff also examines
the unique aspects of the show's casting and performance modes, its
allure as a camp cult text, and the function of the show's many
secondary and tertiary texts-including novels, records, games,
comic books, and the two feature films, House of Dark Shadows
(1970) and Night of Dark Shadows (1971). In the years since its
cancellation, Dark Shadows' enduring popularity has led to a
prime-time NBC remake in the early 1990s, recent talk of a Tim
Burton and Johnny Depp feature film, and a popular ongoing fan
convention. Benshoff's timely study of Dark Shadows will appeal to
fans of the show and all film and television history scholars who
are interested in the roots of one of today's most popular genres.
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