Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video

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Queer Looks is a collection of writing by video artists, filmmakers, and critics which explores the recent explosion of lesbian and gay independent media culture. A compelling compilation of artists' statements and critical theory, producer interviews and image-text works, this anthology demonstrates the vitality of queer artists under attack and fighting back. Each maker and writer deploys a surprising array of techniques and tactics, negotiating the difficult terrain between street pragmatism and theoretical inquiry, finding voices rich in chutzpah and subtlety. From guerilla Super-8 in Manila to AIDS video activism in New York, Queer Looks zooms in on this very queer place in media culture, revealing a wealth of strategies, a plurality of aesthetics, and an artillary of resistances. Contents Acknowledgments Day You Can See Forever On the Make: Activist Video Collectives Iso, me hard work, .1 ••• The Politics of Abstraction Lianna, and Personal Best? These are films where the on-screen space is Unrequited Desire for the Sublime: stance, as a sexual roles and representations; along with Both (1989), it most explicitly If You Don't, I found myself wanting to tell a story, and Girlfriend in a Coma: Notes on the Films of Gregg Araki Three Bewildered of Language l'The Only Haircut that Make. Sense Any~l: Queer Subculture and Gay Resistance Skin The Third Body: PaHems in the Construction of the Sublect in Spider Woman, and around Dyer's and Jack Babuscio's useful articles on Storming Dear Emily: No Sex In the USSR by or a serious crime. And this is not just Pictures The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous memory or as drag It is not the drag performances per se that suggest sexism. In the practice of Evolution is a conscious process. Making the Most of Your Backyard: Story of Dark and Lovely Too: Black Gay Men in Independent Film Fassbinder, Franz, Fox, Elvira, Erwin, Annin, and All the Othen come out a Year My AHair with Pa50lini L. Glomst. dl Desiring Conquest aI I Deep India Postcard: Shortcomings: Questions about Pornography as Pedagogy It is our responsibility. At the same time, there is She Must Be Seeing Things: Security Blankets: Sex, Video and the Police Homosexuality as Dissent/Cinema as Subversion: Articulating Consciousness in the Philippines \\\~E~O\W\\.\U\\l·\JNll~~