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Nathaniel will be here all weekend; he arrives in just about an hour. Y'all know what this means. If any woman has lied to herself on celluloid and you think we've missed it, don't hold back with the Comments section. Extra points if she does so in a long fifth-act monologue, or in close-ups where she cries, or in a porcelain-lined igloo.Labels: Blog Buddies
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The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema ($30/pbk). By Nick Davis. Oxford University Press, 2013.
The book that earned me tenure at Northwestern. Offers a new theoretical model of queer film, born from Gilles Deleuze's rarely-integrated notions of cinema and desire. Chapter-length readings of
Dead Ringers,
Naked Lunch, Shortbus, The Watermelon Woman, Brother to Brother, Beau travail, and
Velvet Goldmine, plus other films along the way! Written for a scholarly audience but hopefully interesting to anyone curious about recent cinema, ideas about desire, or LGBT aesthetics and politics. "Important and needed work...Deeply original." —D.N. Rodowick, "Seductive in its intellect and humbling in its prose." —Michele Aaron
Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television ($32/pbk). Ed. Michael DeAngelis. Wayne State University Press, 2014.
Academic pieces that dig into recent portraits in popular media, comic and dramatic, of intimacies between straight(ish) men. Includes the essay
"'I Love You, Hombre': Y tu mamá también as Border-Crossing Bromance" by Nick Davis, as well as chapters on Superbad, Humpday, Jackass, The Wire, and other texts. Written for a mixed audience of scholars, students, and non-campus readers. Forthcoming in June 2014. "Remarkably sophisticated essays." —Janet Staiger, "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary models of gender and sexuality." —Harry Benshoff
Fifty Key American Films ($31/pbk). Ed. Sabine Haenni, John White. Routledge, 2009. Includes my essays on
The Wild Party,
The Incredibles, and
Brokeback Mountain. Intended as both a newcomer's guide to the terrain
and a series of short, exploratory essays about such influential works as The Birth of a Nation, His Girl Friday, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,
Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Daughters of the Dust, and Se7en.
The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven
Allows ($25/pbk). Ed. James Morrison. Wallflower Press, via Columbia University Press, 2007. Includes the essay
"'The Invention of a People': Velvet Goldmine and the Unburying of Queer Desire" by Nick Davis, later expanded and revised in The Desiring-Image.
More, too, on Poison, Safe, Far From Heaven, and Haynes's other films by Alexandra Juhasz, Marcia Landy,
Todd McGowan, James Morrison, Anat Pick, and other scholars. "A collection as intellectually and emotionally
generous as Haynes' films" —Patricia White, Swarthmore College
Film Studies:
The Basics ($23/pbk). By Amy Villarejo. Routledge, 2006, 2013. Award-winning
film scholar and teacher Amy Villarejo finally gives us the quick, smart, reader-friendly guide to film vocabulary that every
teacher, student, and movie enthusiast has been waiting for, as well as a one-stop primer in the past, present, and future of film production, exhibition,
circulation, and theory. Great glossary, wide-ranging examples, and utterly unpretentious prose that remains rigorous in its analysis;
the book commits itself at every turn to the artistry, politics, and accessibility of cinema.
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9 Comments:
Have fun, and take pictures!
As for recommendations, you've already covered everything I'd thought of. You certainly can't go wrong with anything involving the Bergman-Ullman combo (Face to Face, Autumn Sonata, Scenes from a Marriage, Cries and Whispers, etc)!
Hey guys! Shelley Duvall in 3 Women. Miss Piggy in everything.
Really wish I was there withya.
Lying literally or figuratively?
Literally?
"Secrets and Lies" - came immediately to mind.
Figuratively?
Anything Lars Von Trier, yes?
A. reports a wonderful time last weekend - highway to Nicks - may i make the trek before snow falls.
Vivian Leigh in Streetcar?
It's not a movie, but I'd like to submit this website for your contemplation under "women who lie to themselves":
http://www.marrytomcruisein30days.com/
I'm scared to even contemplate the amount of lists he's going to come home reciting...
A great addition to this canon: Woody Allen's Interiors. Nathaniel had never seen it, and I hadn't for a long time, but Geraldine Page failed every self-polygraph in the book...
@Anon: No fair asking for pix when we don't know who you are!
@Tim: Miss Piggy was a sublime suggestion, though we have exhausted her back catalogue. Shelley Duvall an exquisite, perfect choice, and already one of our favorites. Also, if you take a flight *right* *now*, you can be here for the rest of the fest - remember, you gain five extra hours, etc!
@FFF: Back home? Yay! (I just bought Secrets & Lies on DVD for $6... I was excited, but then, why are they releasing this masterpiece as such a cheapie?)
@David: You know from my countdown that I love me some Streetcar...
@Dr. S: That was a harrowing chronicle. On a somewhat proximate note, unless this guy understands what a catastrophe he is, check out (borrowed from Safire): http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=fred+marshall+karaoke
@Ryan: What a strange thought—I hate lists, and I'm pretty sure N does, too.
Oops! @Webloge: We were just discussing Wings yesterday—another recent DVD purchase, you mind-readers! Lying to yourself in exquisite teal turbans and wraps is a whole new dimension of greatness...
Not quite as harrowing, and much, much funnier, I think:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6739710473912337648&q=i+want+it+that+way
I hope this link will get you there. If it doesn't, just Google Video search "I want it that way" and choose the one that's the two Chinese students in red jerseys. Inspired.
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