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Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships

Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships Paperback - 2000

by Farmer, Brett

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  • Title Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships
  • Author Farmer, Brett
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-10-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR007898634
  • ISBN 9780822325895 / 0822325896
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.67 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion picture audiences - Psychology, Motion pictures and gay men
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00028829
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.437

From the publisher

The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape. Using psychoanalytic theory as his guide while inflecting it with insights from both film theory and queer theory, Brett Farmer moves beyond this clich to develop an innovative exploration of gay spectatorship. The result, Spectacular Passions, reveals how cinema has been engaged by gay men as a vital forum for "fantasmatic performance"--in this case, the production of specifically queer identities, practices, and pleasures.
Building on the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasmatic, Farmer works to depathologize gay male subjectivity. While discussing such films as Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Pirate, Suddenly Last Summer, and Sunset Boulevard, and stars ranging from Mae West to Montgomery Clift, Farmer argues that the particularities of gay men's social and psychic positionings motivate unique receptions of and investments in film. The Hollywood musical, gay camp readings of the extravagant female star, and the explicit homoeroticism of the cinematic male body in gay fanzines are further proof, says Farmer, of how the shifting libidinal profiles of homosexual desire interact with the fantasy scenarios of Hollywood film to produce a range of variable queer meanings.
This fascinating and provocative study makes a significant new contribution to discussions of cinema, spectatorship, and sexuality. As such, it will be welcomed by those in the fields of film theory, queer theory, and cultural studies.

From the rear cover

""Spectacular Passions" makes a compelling case for deploying psychoanalytic theory to explain gay culture's complex relationship with popular film. But, fear not, author Brett Farmer mixes Freud with fandom to produce an engaging book that is filled with insights and surprises."--Alexander Doty, Lehigh University

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Citations

  • Choice, 06/01/2001, Page 1802

About the author

Brett Farmer is Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.

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