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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.
- Picture Noms % Seen:
- 97%
- Dead End
- A
- Friendly Persuasion
- C+
- Gandhi
- C+
- Director Noms % Seen:
- 96%
- The Crowd
- A
- Sabrina
- B–
- I Want to Live!
- C
- Actress Noms % Seen:
- 100%
- A Star Is Born ('54)
- A
- The Country Girl
- B–
- The Letter ('29)
- B
- Actor Noms % Seen:
- 91%
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- A–
- Champion
- B
- The Affairs of Cellini
- C
- Sup Actress Noms % Seen:
- 100%
- Broken Lance
- C+
- The Bachelor Party
- B
- Paper Moon
- B+
- Sup Actor Noms % Seen:
- 91%
- The Day of the Locust
- C
- Juarez
- C+
- The Paper Chase
- D
- Cinematography Noms % Seen:
- 69%
- King Kong ('76)
- C–
- Shanghai Triad
- B
- Earthquake
- D+
- Screenplay Noms % Seen:
- 76%
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer*
- Boomerang!
Most recent screenings in each race;
multiple nominees appear wherever they scored their most prestigious nod... and yes, that means Actress trumps Actor!
* Denotes a recent reappraisal
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3 Comments:
Impeccable selections -- I love the balance of academic thought and impulsive personality that's gone into the choices.
Only one problem, however: "Wendy and Lucy" is an adapted screenplay. (Source material: "Train Choir," a short story by co-scripter Jon Raymond.)
Would that impact on your adapted screenplay category at all? (I hope so, not least because I found everything about "Elegy" ghastly, save for Patricia Clarkson -- but that's me.)
@Guy: Fixed! Thanks for catching that. I know you hated Elegy and almost alluded to that fact in the write-up, since you did have me rethinking my response to the movie, and in truth you still do... but I'm still persuaded by it. Conversely, I didn't like Wendy and Lucy nearly as much as you did, but it's still good enough for an Honorable Mention in its rightful category.
Ah, glad to see it still gets a mention, then.
I realize I'm in the minority on "Elegy," but must confess that it possibly rubbed me the wrong way for personal reasons relating to my own academic family. Some things can't be helped.
In any case, all is well with me and your adapted screenplay list because it includes "The Class" -- which honestly wins this category so handily for me, I'd be tempted not to bother with nominees.
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