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Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon
Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon
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Author: Alexander Doty Publisher: Routledge Format: Softcover # of Pages: 194 Pub. Date: 2000 ISBN-10: 041592345X ISBN-13: 9780415923453
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About
the Book:
"Surrender
Dorthy'' read the Wicked Witch's jet exhaust, leaving the startled
Munchkins to wonder what the message meant. So you think you know all
about film classics? Guess again.
Flaming Classics turns
the heat up on the movies we love best. In
his wicked readings of film favourites, Alexander Doty
takes us
to the queer side of criticism, offering fresh and controversial
views of the stars, the plots, and the directors of our best loved
and most iconic films.
Arguing against the assumptions that only explicitly gay films are
subject to gay readings, he looks at six classics and reads them for
their queer potential. With both affection and scholarly rigour, he
teases out the lesbian fantasy inherent in The Wizard of Oz, the gay
nightmare narrative of The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari, the bisexual
erotics of Gentlemen Prefer Blonds, the queerness of Norman Bates,
and even makes the argument about Citizen Kane's dying word, Rosebud
(Who knew?).
A seasoned critic with a
personal voice, Alexander Doty
is a scholar-fan who writes with both readerships in mind. This
lively, opinionated, and playful look at the movies is a must-read
for film buffs, and for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and
popular culture.
One thing's for sure. After
reading Flaming Classics
you'll know you're definitely not in Kansas anymore.
What people say:
"...peeks into new spaces with
a sharp, funny eye to the tornado that continues to rage between
marginalized queer cultures and mainstream cinema. What
makes Flaming Classics
so refreshing is not so much its innovative angle as its
conversational edge. Instead of the autoerotic jargon that all too
often excites film critics while leaving their audiences unsatisfied,
Doty's intelligent, accessible analyses convert his discourse into a
pleasurable intercourse between writers and readers of both academic
and pop-culture texts." — Rain Taxi
"Flaming
Classics
by Alexander Doty
turns up the temperature on gay currents in cinema from Caligari to
Psycho." — Flaunt
"This
year's many books that probe the sexual nature of film, film stars
and filmmakers could stock a mini-library. Part of the entertaining
group is Flaming Classics
by Alexander Doty,
who argues that 'The
Wizard of Oz'
is a lesbian fantasy – a notion that many 'friends
of Dorothy'
might passionately debate."
— Publishers Weekly
"...Doty
often takes a fresh approach to overexamined works."
— Library Journal
About the Author:
Alexander Doty teaches film
and mass culture in the English department at Lehigh University He is
the author of articles on film, mass culture, and queer studies, and
is currently coediting an anthology on lesbian, gay, and queer mass
culture theory and criticism.
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