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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459973403321

Autore

Waugh Thomas <1948->

Titolo

The romance of transgression in Canada [[electronic resource] ] : queering sexualities, nations, cinemas / / Thomas Waugh ; foreword by Bruce LaBruce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-282-86724-5

9786612867248

0-7735-7680-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (622 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/653

Soggetti

Homosexuality in motion pictures

Gays in motion pictures

Lesbians in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Canada - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reader's guide and acronyms -- Part 1. Ten episodes -- How to queer sexualities, nations, and cinemas, or The romance (and paradoxes) of transgression in Canada -- Monkey on the back : Canadian cinema, conflicted masculinities, and queer silences in Canada's cold war -- Sexual revolution, Canadian cinema, and other queer paradoxes -- Fairy tales of two cities, or queer nation(s)/urban cinema(s) -- Passages : going to town, coming of age -- Forbidden love, or queering the National Film Board of Canada -- Boys and the beast -- Sex, money and sobriety -- Anti-retroviral : "a test of who we are" -- Conclusion : of bodies, shame, and desire -- Part 2. Portrait gallery -- Movers and shakers.