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Film Studies Reading List
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Queer cinema: A critical reader, 3rd Ed., by Michele Aaron (2004). New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press.
“Bisexual games and emotional sustainability in Ferzan Özpetek's queer films,” by Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Serena (2004). New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 2(3): 163.
“Controversy and the Newspaper's Public: The Case of Tongues Untied,” Aufderheide, Patricia (1994). Journalism Quarterly 71:499 (Autumn).
How do I look? Queer film and video, by Bad Object-Choices Collective (1991). Seattle, WA: Bay Press.
Screened out: Playing gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall, by Barrios, Richard (2003). New York: Routledge.
Hollywood androgyny. 2d ed., by Bell-Metereau, Rebecca (1993). New York: Columbia University Press.
Queer cinema: The film reader, edited by Benshoff, Harry, & Griffin, Sean (2004). New York: Routledge.
Boyz Do Cry: Screening History's White Lies, by Brody, Jennifer Devere (2002). Screen 43(1):91 (Spring).
A community like Philadelphia, by Brookey, Robert Alan (1996). Western Journal of Communication 60: 4-56 (October).
“Pistols and petticoats, piety and purity: To Wong Foo, the queering of The American monomyth, and the marginalizing discourses of deification,” by Brookey, Robert Alan, & Westerfelhaus, Robert (2001). Critical Studies in Media Communication 18: 123-140.
“Hiding Homoeroticism in Plain View: The Fight Club DVD as Digital Closet,” by Brookey, Robert Alan & Westerfelhaus, Robert (2002). Critical Studies in Media Communication 19(1):21 (March).
The power and the glitter: The Hollywood-Washington connection, by Brownstein, Ronald (1990). New York: Pantheon.
One-handed histories: The eroto-politics of gay male video pornography, by John R. Burger (1995). New York: Haworth.
What are you looking at? Queer sex, style and cinema, by Paul Burston (1995). London: Cassell.
A queer romance: Lesbians, gay men, and popular culture, edited by Burston, Paul, & Richardson, Colin (1995). New York: Routledge.
“The audiences of The Boys in the Band,” by Carrithers, Joe (1995). Journal of Popular Film & Television 23(2):64 (Summer).
Queer Italia: Same-sex desire in Italian literature and film, edited by Gary P. Cestaro (2004). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
“SEX, GOD, TELEVISION, REALISM, AND THE BRITISH WOMEN FILMMAKERS BEEBAN KIDRON AND ANTONIA BIRD,” by Ciecko, Anne T. (1999). Journal of Film & Video 51(1):22 (Spring).
“He’s all man”: Learning masculinity, gayness, and love from American movies, by John M. Clum (2002). New York: Palgrave.
“Intersecting and competing discourses in Harvey Fierstein's Tidy Endings,” by Jodi R. Cohen (1991). Quarterly Journal of Speech 77: 196-207.
“The Revenge of the Repressed: Homosexuality as Other in The Killing,” by Cossar, Harper (2005). Quarterly Review of Film & Video 22(2):145 (April/June).
Annotated filmography of selected films with lesbian/gay content, by the Council on Social Work Education (1984). New York: Author.
“A Sister in Cinema: An Interview with Yvonne Welbon,” by Cross, Vida (2003). Journal of Film & Video 55(4):41 (Winter).
Lesbian film guide, by Alison Darren (2000). New York: Cassell.
“What WOZ,” by Davis, Reid (2001). Film Quarterly 55(2):2 (Winter).
"Gay Lives through Gay Eyes," by Charles Derry (1996). The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 3(2):20 (April 30).
Making things perfectly queer: Interpreting mass culture, by Alexander Doty (1993). Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Flaming classics: Queering the film canon, by Doty, Alexander. (2000). New York: Routledge.
“THE QUEEN IN SHINING ARMOR,” by Dreisinger, Baz (2000). Journal of Popular Film & Television 28(1):2 (Spring).
The culture of queers, by Dyer, Richard. (2002). New York: Routledge.
The matter of images: Essays on representations (see especially the "The Role of Stereotypes," and "Seen to be Believed: Some Problems in the Representation of Gay People as Typical" chapters), by Richard Dyer (1993). New York: Routledge.
Now you see it: Studies on lesbian and gay film, by Richard Dyer (1990). New York: Routledge.
Gays and Film, edited by Richard Dyer (1984). New York: Zoetrope.
Open secret: Gay Hollywood, 1928-1998, by Ehrenstein, David (1998). New York: Morrow. 
“Out of the wilderness,” by Ehrenstein, David (1993). Film Quarterly 47(1):2 (Fall).
The homoerotic photograph, by Ellenzweig, Allen (1992). New York: Columbia University Press.
“From Nazi Whore to Good German Mother: Revisiting Resistance in the Holocaust Film,” by Erhart, Julia (2000). Screen 41(4):388 (Winter).
Spectacular passions: Cinema, fantasy, gay male spectatorships, by Farmer, Brett (2000). Durham NC: Duke University Press.
“I Remember Mama: Cinema, Memory and Gay Male Matrocentrism,” by Farmer, Brett (1998). Screen 39(4):363 (Winter).
“Invisibility, Homophobia and Heterosexism: Lesbians, Gays and the Media,” by Fejes, Fred & Petrich, Kevin (1993). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 10(4):395 (December).
“Melodrama and 'Maurice': Homo is Where the Het Is,” by Finch, Mark & Kwietnioski, Richard (1988). Screen 29(3):72 (Summer).
“We are Here but are We Queer? Lesbian Filmmaking versus Queer Cinema Conference, London, 12 March 1994,” by Florence, Penny (1994). Screen 35(3):297 (Fall).
“School is out: the British 'coming out' films of the 1990s,” by Fouz-Hernández, Santiago (2002). New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 1(3):149.
“Why Saddam Is Gay: Masculinity Politics in South Park-Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,” by Gardiner, Judith Kegan (2005). Quarterly Review of Film & Video 22(1):51 (January).
“From Taboo Parlor to porn and passing,” by Gemunden, Gerd & Kuzniar, Alice (1997). Film Quarterly 50(3):2 (Spring).
Queer looks: Perspectives on lesbian and gay film and video, edited by Gever, Martha; Parmar, Pratibha, & Greyson, John (1993). New York: Routledge.
“Framing Gay Youth,” by Gove, Ben (1996). Screen 37(2):174 (Summer).
“Gay Culture, Studio Publicity, and the Management of Star Discourse: The Homosexualization of William Haines in Pre-Code Hollywood,” by Gregg, Ronald (2003). Quarterly Review of Film & Video 20(2):81 (April/June).
Tinker Belles and evil queens, by Griffin, Sean (2000). New York: New York University Press.
The Columbia Reader on Lesbian & Gay Men in Media, Society & Politics, edited by Larry Gross and James D. Woods (1999). New York: Columbia University Press.
The lavender screen: The gay and lesbian films, by Hadleigh, Boze (1993). New York: Citadel Press.
Hollywood gays: Conversations with Cary Grant, Liberace, Tony Perkins, Paul Lynde, Cesar Romero, Brad Davis, Randolph Scott, James Coco, William Haines, David Lewis, by Hadleigh, Boze. (1996). New York: Barricade.
“Framing Experience: Case Studies in the Reception of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit,” by Hallam, Julia & Marshment, Margaret (1995). Screen 36(1):1 (Spring).
“Drag queen as angel,” by Hammond, Joyce (1996). Journal of Popular Film & Television 24(3):106.
“Sexing The Crying Game,” by Handler, Kristin (1994). Film Quarterly 47(3):31 (Spring).
Out takes: Essays on queer theory and film, by Hanson, Ellis, ed. (1999). Durham NC: Duke University Press.
“Technology, Paranoia and the Queer Voice,” by Hanson, Ellis (1993). Screen 34(2):137 (Summer).
“Peter Weir and the Cinema of New Age Humanism,” by Hentzi, Gary (1990-91). Film Quarterly 44(2):2 (Winter).
“‘Bad girls changed my life’: Homonormativity in a women’s prison drama,” by Herman, Didi (2003). Critical Studies in Media Communication 20: 1411-159.
Between the sheets, in the streets: Queer, lesbian, gay documentary, by Holmlund, Chris, & Fuchs, Cynthia, eds. (1997). Minneapolis MN: University of Minnesota Press.  
Widescreen dreams: Growing up gay at the movies, by Horrigan, Patrick E. (1999). Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
“The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares),” by Imboden, Roberta (2005). Film Quarterly 58(3):48 (Spring).
Daughters of desire: Lesbian representations in film, by Kabir, Shameem (1998).  Washington DC: Cassell.
The queer German cinema, by Kuzniar, Alice A. (2000). Stanford CA: Stanford UP.
Masculine interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood films, by Lang, Robert. (2002). New York: Columbia University Press.
“Gender Transgression and Villainy in Animated Film,” by Li-Vollmer, Meredith & LaPointe, Mark E. (2003). Popular Communication 1(2):89.
“Lesbian Phantasy and the Other Woman in Ottinger's Johanna d'Arc,” by Longfellow, Brenda (1993). Screen 34(2):124 (Summer).
“Bad Education,” by Malone, Peter (2004). Media Development 51(3):54.
Wisecracker: The life and times of William Haines, Hollywood’s first openly gay star, by Mann, William J. (1998). New York: Viking.
“Garbo and Phallic Motherhood: A 'Homosexual' Visual Economy,” by Matthews, Peter (1988). Screen 29(3):14 (Summer).
“Communicating deviance: The effects of television news coverage of social protest,” by McLeod, Douglas M. (1995). Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 39: 4-19.
That Special Thrill: Brief Encounter, Homosexuality and Authorship, by Medhurst, Andy (1991). Screen 32(2):197 (Summer).
“'Victim': Text as Context,” by Medhurst, Andy (1984). Screen 25(4):22 (July-October).
Girl reel: A lesbian remembers growing up at the movies: A memoir, by Bonnie J. Morris (2000). St. Paul MN: Consortium.
“Autoethnographic Performance: Reading Richard Fung's Queer Hybridity,” by Muno, Jose (1995). Screen 36(2):83 (Summer).
Images in the dark: An encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video, by Murray, Raymond (1996). New York: Plume.
Like a film: Ideological fantasy on screen, camera, and canvas, by Murray, Timothy (1993). New York: Routledge.
“New York City Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (The New Festival), June 5-15 1997, by Nadeau, Chantal (1998). Screen 39(1):87 (Spring).
“Homosexuality in Hollywood Films: A Contemporary Paradox,” Nelson, Jeffrey (1985). Critical Studies in Mass Communication 2(1):54 (March).
“Competing rhetorical strategies in the Gay and Lesbian Video Wars: Marching for Freedom and Gay Rights, Special Rights,” by Netzhammer, Emile C. (1999) in Meta G. Carstarphen and Susan C. Zavoina (eds.), Sexual Rhetoric: Media Perspectives on Sexuality, Gender, and Identity (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press).
“The office cat reports from London” (2003). Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television 23(4):387 (October).
Queer movie poster book, by Olson, Jenni (2004). San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
Edge of seventeen: Melodramatic coming-out in new queer adolescence films, by Padva, Gilad (2004). Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 1: 355-372.
“Advertorial with a Twist,” Palser, Barb (2002). American Journalism Review 24(4):66 (May).
Hitchcock and homosexuality: His 50-year obsession with Jack the Ripper and the superbitch prostitute, by Price, Theodore (1992). Metuchen: Scarecrow Press.
The celluloid closet: Homosexuality and the movies, Revised Ed., by Russo, Vito. (1987). New York: Harper & Row. 
Imps of the perverse: Gay monsters in film, by Saunders, Michael William (1998). Westport CT: Praeger.
“American Fabulous and the Re-filming of Male Biography,” by Schiavi, Michael R.(2001). Quarterly Review of Film & Video 18(1):53.
“Reinventing Privilege: The New (Gay) Man in Contemporary Popular Media,” by Shugart, Helene A. (2003). Critical Studies in Media Communication 20(1):67 (March).
“The silent closet,” by Slide, Anthony (1999). Film Quarterly 52(1):24 (Summer).
Jump cut: Hollywood, politics, and counter cinema, by Steven, Peter (1985). New York: Praeger.
“From the bedroom to the bijou,” by Stevenson, Jack (1997). Film Quarterly 51(1):24 (Fall).
Gay Hollywood: Film and video guide, by Stewart, Stephen (1993). Laguna Hills CA: Companion Publications.
“A Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian Films,” by Stranieri, Vyvyan & Tsiolkas, Christos (2001). Australian Screen Education nos. 26-27:184 (Winter).
Bike boys, drag queens & superstars: Avant-garde, mass culture, and gay identities in the 1960s underground cinema, by Suarez, Juan Antonio (1996). Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press.
Working like a homosexual: Camp, capital, cinema, by Tinkcom, Matthew (2002).   Durham NC: Duke University Press.
“Shakespeare, Zeffirelli, and the homosexual gaze,” by van Watson, William (1992). Literature Film Quarterly 20(4):308.
“Continuous Sex: The Editing of Homosexuality in Bound and Rope,” by Wallace, Lee (2001). Screen 41(4):369 (Winter).
“Rhetoric of AIDS: A Dossier Compiled by Simon Watney, With Photographs by Sunil Gupta,” by Watney, Simon (1986). Screen 27(1):72 (January-February).
The fruit machine: Twenty years of writings on queer cinema, by Waugh, Thomas (2000). Durham NC: Duke University Press.
Hard to imagine: Gay male eroticism in film and photography from their beginnings to Stonewall, by Waugh, Thomas (1996). New York: Columbia University Press.
Vampires & violets: Lesbians in film, by Andrea Weiss (1993). New York: Penguin.
“At the Unlikely Confluence of Conservative Religion and Popular Culture: Fight Club as Heteronormative Ritual,” by Westerfelhaus, Robert & Brookey, Robert Alan (2004). Text & Performance Quarterly 24(3/4):302 (July-October).
Screen dreams: Fantasising lesbians in film, by Whatling, Clare (1997) Manchester: Manchester University Press.
“Girls Still Cry,” by White, Patricia (2001). Screen 42(2):217 (Summer).
Uninvited: Classical Hollywood cinema and lesbian representability, by White, Patricia. (1999). Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press.
“PLAYGROUNDS OF DESIRE: ALMODOVAR, FETISHISM, AND THE MALE IDEAL EGO,” by Williams, Bruce (2000). Journal of Film & Video 52(2):28 (Summer).
“Programming Strategy and Censorship at Ipswich Film Theatre,” by Winfield, Rebecca (1986). Screen 27(2):65 (March/April).
Gay People, Sex and the Media, edited by Wolf, Michelle A. and Alfred P. Kielwasser (1990). Harrington Park Press.
“Deviant Imaging; Lesbian/Gay/Queer - Film, University of Warwick, 23 May 1998,” by Wood, Aylish (1998). Screen 39(4):407 (Winter).
“Cinematic/sexual transgression,” by Wyatt, Justin (1993). Film Quarterly 46(3):2 (Spring).
“A Mostly Serviceable Romp," by Michael Zam (1996). The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 3(2): 47 (April 30).
Frightening the Horses: Gay Icons of the Cinema, Eric Braun (2002). London: Reynolds & Hearn.
Derek Jarman and Lyric Film: The Mirror and the Sea, Steven Dillon (2004). Austin: University of Texas Press.
Queer (un)friendly Film and Television, James R. Keller (2002). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Edge of Midnight: The Life of John Schlesinger, William J. Mann (2004). London: Hutchinson.

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