The Desiring-Image : Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema

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Cover Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Desiring-Image The Triple Womb Queering the Cinema Books New Queer Is . . . New Queer Ain’t Seven Pillars of Schizo Homo Pomo A Word on Orientations, or Around 1991 Preview of Coming Attractions 1. “Beyond Gay”: Dead Ringers and Queer Perceptions “We’ re Just Not Sure What Kind It Is” Dissenting from “A Dissenting View” Mutant Textuality Perceptions of Perception: Movement, Time, Subtraction Perceptions and Desire: Types of Flows Out-of-Fields and the Desiring-Image The Desiring-Images of Dead Ringers First Out-of-Field: The Mantles vs. the World Second Out-of-Field: The Love that Keeps Almost Speaking Its Name Third Out-of-Field: The Triple Womb and the “Either . . . or . . . or . . . ” Fourth Out-of-Field: Impulse and Immanence The Desiring-Image as Relation-Image 2. Hard Bodies and Sex-Blobs: Deterritorializing Desire in Naked Lunch and Shortbus Innaresting Sex Arrangements Peaks, Sheets, and Series “Everything Is Permitted”: Incompossibilities of Desire Schizos and Counterpublics If on a Summer’s Night a Sex-Blob Sounds, Stutters, and Scatterplots A Kafk a High or a New Low?: Quandaries of the Minor Shortbus: The Queer Politics of “Actual” Sex Does This Bus Only Make One Stop? 3. “Something in Her Face”: Queering the Affection-Image in The Watermelon Woman Who Is She, and What Is She to You? The Riddle of the Lesbian Affection-Image Like Clockwork, or How to Make a Face Facing Elsie, and the Mystery of the Other Person Black Lesbians and Their Others Peaks of Present, or What Ever Happened to Lesbian Community? Sheets of Past and Centers of Indetermination A Single Face, Implying Multitudes Deflective Unities and Oracular Chores Faces in the Crowd Facing Forward 4. Brother to Brother and Adventures in Queer Crystallography Queer Crystallography Crystals, Then and Now The Four Types Looking for Bruce / Looking for Perry Through a Crystal-Image, Darkly What’s Sex Got to Do with It? 5. Crystal-Queer Economies: Beau travail What’s Money Got to Do with It? The Oyster and the Book in Blood The Broken Compass and the Three Economies Beau travail, or the Ambiguities Compound Crystals Bachelors and Belles Transitions 6. Theses on a Philosophy of Queer History: Velvet Goldmine Changing the World and Changing Ourselves Angels, Aliens, and Orphans Point A to Point B Wild Cards and Unexpected Critiques Toward Productive Ends The Minors and the Miners Conclusion: The Pin and the Pearl Glossary A C D F I L M O P R S T Notes Works Cited Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W Y Z