"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%
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8 GAY DIRECTORS WHOSE MOVI AND TV SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Her sophomore effort was the HBO movie Bsie, a bpic on the legendary Blu sger and bisexual in Bsie Smh. Today, the former is nsired a landmark work of gay cema and ntu to be one of his most beloved films. One of the earlit openly gay directors, John Waters boasts a prolific body of work, most of which clus inic mils and cult edi.
" The film follows the explos of a closeted gay Korean Amerin teenager who works at a spa to help his fay only to disver a sexual unrworld at his new job. Jamie Babb is perhaps bt known for her but feature, 1999's "But I'm a Cheerlear, " the beloved queer classic that tells the story of two teenage girls who fall love at a gay nversn therapy mp.
Brish wrer-director-producer Andrew Haigh is perhaps bt known for his ntributns to the HBO seri "Lookg, " which follows a group of young gay men San Francis. While his but feature was "Greek Pete" 2009, Haigh broke out two years later wh "Weekend, " a film about two gay men who have an extend one-night stand and explore the meang of nnectn the morn era. Many of Van Sant's films explore homosexualy through subtext, examg the relatnships of margalized outsirs.
GAY DIRECTORS GAY FILMS?
While queerns is often subtextual his films, Van Sant explored homosexualy at the foreont of "Milk, " a historil bpic about Harvey Milk, California's first openly gay elected polician. Hayn' but feature "Poison" was even more ntroversial for s overt exploratn and pictns of homosexualy, but earned him two Film Inpennt Spir Award nomatns for bt director and bt first picture. The film stars his good iend and equent llaborator Julianne Moore as a 1950s suburban hoewife who learns her hband is gay and embarks on an affair wh her Black garner.