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Fairy Lgbtales

Mapping Queer Fairy-Tale Retellings

Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes

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Available April 2025
ISBN: 9780814350423
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Available April 2025
ISBN: 9780814350430
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Will & Grace

Tison Pugh

The creation and legacy of the sitcom that transformed queer representation in American television.

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Published: September 2023
ISBN: 9780814349069
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2023
ISBN: 9780814349076

Queer Imaginings

On Writing and Cinematic Friendship

David A. Gerstner

Discovering the queer auteur and their seductive cinematic delights and possibilities.

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Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814350218
$42.99
Hardcover
Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814350201
$94.99
eBOOK
Published: March 2023
ISBN: 9780814350225

Streisand

The Mirror of Difference

Garrett Stewart

A blend of film reading with vocal analysis in appreciation of Barbra Streisand’s unmatched contribution to lyric drama on screen.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349083
$35.99
Hardcover
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349090
$85.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349106

Fearless Vulgarity

Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship

Ken Feil

The enduring queer feminist engagement with Valley of the Dolls author Jacqueline Susann’s camp comedy legacy.

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Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814346044
$34.99
Hardcover
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814346037
$84.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814346051
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Queering Anti-Zionism

Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism

A queer critique of anti-Zionism, exploring how the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement has undermined scholarly inquiry.

Paperback
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349984
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814349991
$89.99
eBOOK
Published: November 2022
ISBN: 9780814350003

Cannibalizing Queer

Brazilian Cinema from 1970 to 2015

João Nemi Neto

Puts forward a new, provocative history of queer cinema in Brazil.

Paperback
Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346105
$42.99
Hardcover
Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346099
$94.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2022
ISBN: 9780814346112

Barbara Hammer

Pushing Out of the Frame

Sarah Keller

Surveys the boundary-pushing career of pioneering filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer.

Paperback
Published: August 2021
ISBN: 9780814348581
$35.99
Hardcover
Published: August 2021
ISBN: 9780814348598
$94.99
eBOOK
Published: August 2021
ISBN: 9780814348604

Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema

Joe McElhaney

Unveils the metaphoric and theoretical possibilities of fabric in the films of Luchino Visconti.

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Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814343081
$35.99
Hardcover
Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814348260
$94.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2021
ISBN: 9780814343098

Archaic Modernism

Queer Poetics in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini

Daniel Humphrey

Detailed textual readings evoking the archaic sensibility and modernist style of Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Paperback
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814343104
$35.99
Hardcover
Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814346068
$85.99
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Published: November 2020
ISBN: 9780814343111
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Gut Botany

Poems by Petra Kuppers

Poetry that inhabits and queers bodies and lands in an ecosomatic investigation - by a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient!

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Published: March 2020
ISBN: 9780814347638
$17.99
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Published: March 2020
ISBN: 9780814347645
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These are Love(d) Letters

Ames Hawkins

Intimate and unwavering exploration of love, loss, and the queer possibilities inherent in artistic aspiration.

Paperback
Published: September 2019
ISBN: 9780814347263
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: September 2019
ISBN: 9780814347270

Queer Mexico

Cinema and Television since 2000

Paul Julian Smith

Explores the rich and varied LGBT cinema and television of Mexico since the new millennium.

Paperback
Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814342749
$35.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814342756

The Boys in the Band

Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics

Edited by Matt Bell

William Friedkin’s 1970 motion picture The Boys in the Band is perfectly poised for the wide-ranging reassessment and innovative readings that this edited volume accomplishes.

Paperback
Published: December 2016
ISBN: 9780814341537
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2016
ISBN: 9780814341544

Christophe Honoré

A Critical Introduction

David A. Gerstner and Julien Nahmias

Studies Honoré as an auteur who intervenes in French filmmaking practices and culture with a queer "caméra-stylo."

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Published: December 2015
ISBN: 9780814338636
$34.99
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Published: December 2015
ISBN: 9780814338643
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Erotic Infidelities

Love and Enchantment in Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber

Kimberly J. Lau

Explores the peculiar enchantments at the heart of Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Carter’s commitment to imagining unforeseen possibilities for heterosexual love and desire.

Paperback
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339336
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2014
ISBN: 9780814339343

The L Word

Margaret T. McFadden

Explores representational strategies in the groundbreaking series The L Word.

Paperback
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780814338247
$19.99
eBOOK
Published: February 2014
ISBN: 9780814338254

Montgomery Clift, Queer Star

Elisabetta Girelli

Considers Montgomery Clift's star persona, film roles, and performances through the lens of queer theory.

Paperback
Published: December 2013
ISBN: 9780814335147
$32.99
eBOOK
Published: December 2013
ISBN: 9780814339244

Queer Enchantments

Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy

Anne E. Duggan

Examines director Jacques Demy's use of the fairy tale as a means to explore issues of gender, sexuality, and class.

Paperback
Published: October 2013
ISBN: 9780814335093
$31.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2013
ISBN: 9780814338544

Transgressive Tales

Queering the Grimms

Edited by Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill

Contributors explore alternative readings and queer possibilities of the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (KHM, Children's and Household Tales).

Paperback
Published: October 2012
ISBN: 9780814334812
$36.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2012
ISBN: 9780814338100

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