Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film

by Richard Dyer

Paperback, 1990

Status

Available

Call number

PN1995.9.H55 D94 1990

Genres

LGBTQ+

General Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Collection

Your library

Publication

Routledge (1990), Edition: 1, Paperback, 344 pages

Description

Revised for this second edition, Now You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, now includes an outline of developments in queer cinema since 1990. Placing the book within lesbian and gay film history, Dyer examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D'Amour and Word is Out in their lesbian/gay context, as well as bringing to light many other forgotten, but remarkable films. Each film is examined in detail in relation to both film type and tradition, and the sexual subculture in

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There have been hundreds of films with homosexual characters, many revealing hemophobic prejudices. Yet while hundreds of lesbians and gay men have worked before and behind the camera, relatively few films have been made by lesbians and gay men that actually explore the problems, pressures, and

pleasures of lesbian and gay life. Now You See It is about some of them. In part it provides a record of these films up to 1980, putting familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un chant d'amour and Word Is Out in their lesbian/gay context and bringing to light many other forgotten but remarkable films. Each film discussed is categorised and each type is examined in detail in relation to both film tradition and the sexual sub-cultures within which they were made. There is more at stake, however, than simply uncovering and re-evaluating what has been hidden from history - Now You See It is also a case study in the dynamincs of lesbian/gay cultural production. These films were formed from the filmic and sub-cultural images, assumptions, styles, and feelings available to them, which both made the films possible and also defined and delimited the forms they could take and what they could say. Such processes of formation and deformation characterise all cultural production, but they carry a special charge for lesbians and gay men seeking both to break free from and be heard in the languages of a homophobic society.

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