The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema

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Duke University Press, 2000-04-04 - 312 psl.
For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay film theory and criticism, and over the next two decades solidified his reputation as one of the most important and influential gay film critics. The Fruit Machine—a collection of Waugh’s reviews and articles originally published in gay community tabloids, academic journals, and anthologies—charts the emergence and maturation of Waugh’s critical sensibilities while lending an important historical perspective to the growth of film theory and criticism as well as queer moviemaking.
In this wide-ranging anthology Waugh touches on some of the great films of the gay canon, from Taxi zum Klo to Kiss of the Spider Woman. He also discusses obscure guilty pleasures like Born a Man . . . Let Me Die a Woman, unexpectedly rich movies like Porky’s and Caligula, filmmakers such as Fassbinder and Eisenstein, and film personalities from Montgomery Clift to Patty Duke. Emerging from the gay liberation movement of the 1970s, Waugh traverses crises from censorship to AIDS, tackling mainstream potboilers along with art movies, documentaries, and avant-garde erotic videos. In these personal perspectives on the evolving cinematic landscape, his words oscillate from anger and passion to wry wit and irony. With fifty-nine rare film stills and personal photographs and an introduction by celebrated gay filmmaker John Greyson, this volume demonstrates that the movie camera has been the fruit machine par excellence.

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A Very Natural Thing Word Is Out and The Naked Civil Servant
14
A Dialogue with Chuck Kleinhans
34
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
43
A FagSpotters Guide to Eisenstein
59
Derek Jarmans Sebastians
69
Born a Man Let Me Die a Woman
72
The Films Behind the Man
74
Im Not from Here
86
Hollywoods Change of Heart? Porkys and The Road Warrior
141
Amos Gutmanns Nagua
145
Rope
148
Third World Gay Films?
151
A New Biography
156
Decline of the American Empire Anne Trister A Virus Knows No Morals and Man of Ashes
161
The Kiss of the Maricon or Gay Imagery in Latin American Cinema
172
Maurice Law of Desire and Vera
187

Samperis Ernesto and von Praunheims Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
88
Stars and Sex
93
Chant damour Army of Lovers We Were One Man
101
Nighthawks by Ron Peck and Paul Hallam
109
Burin des Rozierss Blue Jeans
114
Caligula
117
Ripploh and His Brothers
122
Pasolini Schroeter and Others
126
Patty Duke and Tasteful Dykes
131
Luc ou la part des choses Another Way and Querelle
135
Hello and Goodbye
195
Beauty and the Beast Take Two
208
Whipping Up a Cinema
214
Erotic Selfimages in the Gay Male AIDS Melodrama
218
Vito Russo 19461990
235
Were Talking Vulva or My Body Is Not a Metaphor
237
Lesbian and Gay Liberation Documentary of the PostStonewall Period 19691984
246
Archeology and Censorship
272
Selected Additional Works
297
Index
299

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Thomas Waugh is Professor of Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. In addition to his many published articles and reviews, he is the author of Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall. John Greyson is a prizewinning filmmaker whose work includes the features Urinal, Zero Patience, Lilies, and Uncut, as well as numerous short videos.

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