Immortal, Invisible: Lesbians and the Moving Image is the first collection to bring together leading film-makers, academics and activists to discuss films by, for and about lesbians and queer women. The contributors debate the practice of lesbian and queer film-making, from the queer cinema of Monika Treut to the work of lesbian film-makers Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller. They explore the pleasures and problems of lesbian spectatorship, both in mainstream Hollywood films including Aliens and Red Sonja, and in independent cinema from She Must be Seeing Things to Salmonberries and Desert Hearts. The authors tackle tricky questions: can a film such as Strictly Ballroom be both pleasurably camp and heterosexist? Is it ok to drool over dyke icons like Sigourney Weaver and kd lang? What makes a film lesbian, or queer, or even post-queer? What about showing sex on screen? And why do lesbian screen romances hardly ever have happy endings? Immortal, Invisible is splendidly illustrated with a selection of images from film and television texts.
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LGBT StudiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: On invisibility and mortality
- 1. What is a Nice Lesbian Like You Doing in a Film Like This?
- 2. The Meaning of Treut?
- 3. Oranges are not the Only Fruit: Reaching Audiences Other Lesbian Texts Cannot Reach
- 4. Salmonberries: Consuming kd lang
- 5. Sex in the Summer of ’88
- 6. ‘If You Don’t Play, You Can’t Win’ Desert Hearts and the Lesbian Romance Film
- 7. Portrait of a Production
- 8. The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister
- 9. On Not Being Lady Macbeth: Some (Troubled) Thoughts on Lesbian Spectatorship
- 10. Girl’s Camp? The Politics of Parody
- 11. Looking at Pumping Iron II: The Women
- 12. Desire and Design—Ripley Undressed
- 13. Visible Mortals: Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller Interviewed by Nazreen Memon
- Filmography
- Index
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