About this book
This is a timely and comprehensive introduction to one of the most "cutting-edge" film movements of the 1990s. Tracing its impact on representations of gender and sexuality in both independent and mainstream cinema culture, this volume explores how lesbian, gay, and queer filmmaking radically reclaimed or subverted the negative stereotypes, genres, and narratives of the past, envisioning an unapologetic and irreverent new horizon beyond hetero-normative politics, pleasure, and identity. Films include: Poison (1991), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and The Living End (1992).
Themes & subjects
LGBTQ film and television
About the author
Robin Mark Griffiths
Robin Griffiths is a lecturer in film studies at the University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. My specialist research and teaching areas include US and European film history and screen culture, with a specific emphasis on more ‘alternative’ practices and modes of reception. I am particularly passionate about the role that cinema can play as a potential force for social change, and am regularly invited to present papers at conferences in the UK, US and Canada.
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