Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xv
5. PART I. ORIGINS, FESTIVALS, AUDIENCES
6. 1. Before the Beginning: Lineages and Preconceptions 3
7. 2. The New Queer Cinema: Director’s Cut 16
8. 3. Collision, Catastrophe, Celebration: The Relationship between Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals and Their Publics 33
9. 4. What’s a Good Gay Film? 40
10. Part II. Bulletins from the Front
11. 5. The King of Queer: Derek Jarman 49
12. 6. True Stories of Forbidden Love 53
13. 7. Goings and Comings, the Go Fish Way 58
14. 8. Historical Fictions, Modern Desires: The Watermelon Woman 66
15. 9. Channeling Domestic Violence: In the Den with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon 72
16. 10. The I.K.U. Experience: The Shu-Lea Cheang Phenomenon 76
17. 11. Jonathan Caouette: What in Tarnation? 81
18. 12. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Tropical Maladies 88
19. 13. Beyond Doom: Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Film 92
20. 14. A Walk in the Clouds: Julián Hernández 96
21. Part III. Genre Meets Gender
22. 15. Lethal Lesbians: The Cinematic Inscription of Murderous Desire 103
23. 16. Queering the Biopic Documentary 123
24. 17. A Queer and Present Danger: The Death of New Queer Cinema? 130
25. Part IV. Queering a New Latin American Cinema
26. 18. Preface to a History 141
27. 19. Refashioning Mexican Screen Sexuality: Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc 145
28. 20. Gay and Lesbian Traces 151
29. 21. Mexico in the Forties: Reclaiming a Gender Pioneer 156
30. 22. Revolution, Sexuality, and the Paradox of Queer Film in Cuba 159
31. 23. Queering the Social Landscape 167
32. Part V. Expansions and Reversals
33. 24. Ang Lee’s Lonesome Cowboys 185
34. 25. Itty Bitty Titty Committee: Free Radicals and the Feminist Carnivalesque 202
35. 26. Queer Nouveau: From Morality Tales to Mortality Tales in Ozon, Téchiné, Collard 214
36. 27. Got Milk? Gus Van Sant’s Encounter with History 236
37. Conclusion 261
38. Filmography 285
39. Bibliography 297
40. Credits 307
41. Index 309