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GAY DIRECTORS GAY FILMS?
"This is an imprsively rmative treatment of five proment gay directors who reprent a wi range of differenc wh the gay spectm. Levy's background gay cema, pennt cema, and tradnal Hollywood cema make him the ial thor for this signifint and origal study." —Molly Haskell, film cric and thor of "Frankly, My Dear: Gone wh the Wd Revised" "In a nuanced examatn of five pneerg gay directors, Emanuel Levy mov wh fluid grace and astonishg edn through a broad range of natnal tradns and personal styl, nailg what is peculiar and trigug about each tr. His study will enchant anyone terted the twists and turns of genr, sex, and cema over the last 50 years." —Thomas Doherty, thor of "Hollywood and Hler, 1933-1939" About the Book: For most of the twentieth century, gay characters and gay them were both unrreprented and misreprented mastream cema. Sce the 1970s, however, a new generatn of openly gay directors has turned the closet si out, brgg a new and poignant immediacy to morn cema and popular culture. Combg his experienced crique wh -pth terviews nducted wh each director, Emanuel Levy draws a clear timele of gay filmmakg over the past four s and s particular fluenc and novatns. While regnizg the "queerg" of Amerin culture that rulted om the films, Levy also tak stock of the ensug nservative backlash and s impact on cematic art, a trend that ntu alongsi the growg acceptance of homosexualy. He par the siari and differenc between the "North Amerin" attus of Todd Hayn, G Van Sant, and John Waters and the "European" perspectiv of Pedro Almodóvar and Terence Davi, velopg a tly prehensive, up-to-date approach to gay filmmakg particular and tr cema general. COLUMBIA Augt 2015 392 pag · 33 b&w photographs $25.00/£17.50 paper · 978-0-231-15277-8 $35.00/£24.00 cloth · 978-0-231-15276-1 Emanuel Levy is a profsor of film and soclogy, who has tght at Columbia Universy, Wellley College, ASU, UCLA, and New York Universy. He is the thor of ne books, cludg Vcente Mnelli: Hollywood's Dark Dreamer; All About Osr: The History and Polics of the Amy Awards; Cema of Outsirs: The Rise of Amerin Inpennt Film; Gee Cor: Master of Elegance; John Wayne: Prophet of the Amerin Way of Life; and Cizen Sarris: Amerin Film Cric. A two-time print of the L.A. Film Crics Associatn, Levy is the only cric the U.S. who vot for seven groups, rangg om the Hollywood Foreign Prs Associatn to the Natnal Society of Film Crics. He had served as senr cric for Variety and chief film cric for Screen Internatnal before foundg 2003 the acclaimed webse: Cema 24/7. He has served on the grand juri of fifty-four ternatnal film ftivals, cludg Cann, Venice, Montreal, Lorno, Taorma, San Francis, Hawaii and Sundance. ORDER ONLINE NOW AND SAVE 30% * list of gay directors *
Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wiv acted his films and the other served as his edor. Legacy gay favore “Queer as Folk, ” already rema once before the U. Billy Eichner is headg up the first gay rom- om a major stud wh “Bros, ” “Heartstopper” is a tween smash on Netflix, and Jerrod Carmichael, one of the folks on our list of the 10 LGBTQ Film and TV Creators on the Rise 2022, me out on an HBO special.
Jerrod Carmichael is on a hot streak followg his trospective HBO stand-up special “Rothaniel, ” which the ic not only me out as gay but also revealed his unual birthname to dienc. The movie puts the msy particulars of gay sex and the ntag stggle for timacy ont and center, makg Fifer a uniquely provotive voice. Frier, who prevly served as a staff wrer on MTV’s “Sweet/Vic” said ’s near impossible” to “gat gay sh ma.
Chris Kelly cut his teeth as a scribe behd the scen at “Saturday Night Live” as the seri’ first openly gay wrer. ” The HBO Max edy seri, -created wh Schneir, about a warped brother and sister pair tryg to make the dtry fearlsly took on gay taboos this past Season 2 — cludg an entire episo about the social-media fallout of accintally postg a “hole pic. Stolevski told IndieWire that after releasg the “gngy gay love story, ” he’ll next prep a “queer edy-drama set very prent-day Macedonia.
GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS?
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