Brokeback Mountain [[electronic resource] /] / Gary Needham
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| Autore: |
Needham Gary
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| Titolo: |
Brokeback Mountain [[electronic resource] /] / Gary Needham
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.4372 |
| Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality in motion pictures |
| Western films | |
| Classificazione: | 24.32 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-137) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Brokaholics Anonymous; 1. The Indie in Focus; 2. Queering the Western; 3. A Pathetic State of Affairs: Brokeback Mountain and Melodrama; 4. When Jack and Ennis Meet: Cruising as a Mode of Gay Spectatorship; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Upon its release in 2005, Brokeback Mountain became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain situated a love story between two closeted cowboys at the heart of American mythology, film spectatorship and genre. It offered an independent and queer revision of the conventions and clichés of the western and the melodrama through a studied exploration of homophobia and the closet. This book examines the movie in relation to indie cinema, genre, spectatorshi |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Brokeback Mountain |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-5125-X |
| 1-282-62017-7 | |
| 9786612620171 | |
| 0-7486-3384-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819931003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
American indies.