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™ed because this is completely Nathaniel's idea, and I'm completely stealing it out of equal parts time pressure, admiration, and covetousness. (I know, I know, thou shalt not...) So, here goes:Labels: Movies 2008, My Sean, Queer Cinema
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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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5 Comments:
steal away. it was born only of intense time pressures between screenings this time of year ;)
p.s. ha ha. but damn. now i want to read despite your admirable discipline!
Exactly! I agree with both the grade and all seven words, especially Sean! Isn't he fantastic?
Hey Nick:
How about a ranked list of your favorite Sean Penn performances? ;)
This is tricky because of the many Sean performances I have missed, especially before the mid '90s. There are at least three doozies that I have missed that no Sean devotee should miss.
But I will say that the current list starts this way:
1) The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2) Dead Man Walking
3) Hurlyburly
4) Milk
5) The Thin Red Line
After that it's murky, because I start to feel about equally about the work, or I start to get even more spooked about not having seen F*** T**** ** R******** H*** or C******'* W** or C***** or S**** ** G****.
I'd have:
1. Milk
2. Dead Man Walking
3. The Assassination of Richard Nixon
4. The Thin Red Line
5. Carlito's Way
6. Casualties of War
With I Am Sam and All the King's Men fighting for Razzie status.
I've seen State of Grace but it's Oldman who gets the better opportunities there.
Completely heart him in Milk though. Wish Oscar had given Bill M his due in '03 and waited a few more years...
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