Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davi, Todd Hayn, G Van Sant, John Waters: 9780231152761: Levy, Emanuel: Books
Contents:
- 8 GAY DIRECTORS WHOSE MOVI AND TV SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS?
- ‘GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS?’ REVIEW: ONSCREEN PICTN OF SEXUALY
- GAY DIRECTORS GAY FILMS?
- GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS?: PEDRO ALMODóVAR, TERENCE DAVI, TODD HAYN, G VAN SANT, JOHN WATERS HARDVER – ILLTRATED, AUGT 25, 2015
- A REVIEW OF GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS? BY EMANUEL LEVY
- GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS? : PEDRO ALMODÂOVAR, TERENCE DAVI, TODD HAYN, G VAN SANT, JOHN WATERS
8 GAY DIRECTORS WHOSE MOVI AND TV SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Through timate enunters wh the life and work of five ntemporary gay male directors, this book velops a amework for terpretg what means to ... | CUP * gay directors gay films *
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.
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"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% * gay directors gay films *
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?’ REVIEW: ONSCREEN PICTN OF SEXUALY
Through timate enunters wh the life and work of five ntemporary gay male directors, this book velops a amework for terpretg what means to mak... * 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.
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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. Guadagno is probably bt known for "Call Me By Your Name, " a gay love story that tak place durg an Italian summer the 1980s.
His 1976 but feature, "Sebastiane, " was ntroversial for s overt pictns of homosexualy.
Outsi of his work, Jarman was a proment public figure Bra and advoted for gay rights durg the AIDS crisis.
GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS?: PEDRO ALMODóVAR, TERENCE DAVI, TODD HAYN, G VAN SANT, JOHN WATERS HARDVER – ILLTRATED, AUGT 25, 2015
This review first appeared on Fourth & Symore. Film cric Emanuel Levy‘s new book Gay Directors , Gay Films? is an excellent examatn of the work of five gay filmmakers–Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davi, Todd Hayn, G Van Sant, and John Waters–though never extensively explor s this as stated the terrogative tle: do gay directors necsarily… * gay directors gay films *
Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich kissed women on-screen the 1930s, and filmmakers ever sce have tackled queerns profound, tillatg and sultg my unt, there are four typ of queer-awakeng movi:Comg-of-age pictns built around sex and romance, often volvg characters who are disverg or g to terms wh their own potential queerns (“Heavenly Creatur, ” “Pariah, ” “Call Me by Your Name”)Slice-of-life stori that show queer people embracg their inti spe of the world around them (“The Boys the Band, ” “Longtime Compann, ” “The Kids Are All Right”)Megahs that brg queerns to the mastream (“The Color Purple, ” “Philalphia, ” “The Birdge”)Movi wh mp eccentrici, gay ins or d queerns (“Lawrence of Arabia, ” “The Rocky Horror Picture Show, ” anythg starrg Judy Garland)Wh Pri Month arrivg, I wanted to know what shaped today’s LGBTQ directors, so I asked a number of filmmakers and shownners to reflect on the first queer or queer-adjacent movie they fell love wh. It was a gay culture sentially, but not a mastream gay culture. It had a st of gay pirat as far as I uld tell, which was spirg for me.
It also showed that morn munitn uld be held the hands of the gay fashn pirat: John Waters, Dive and Mk Soloway (“Transparent, ” “I Love Dick”)Their pick: “Workg Girls” As someone who really didn’t intify as queer or trans until waaaaay after I started seeg movi, I’ll talk about a movie that vibrated me to my very re. Beatty orred the subplot removed — but somehow enough of the tentn survived that even a barely pubcent gay boy uld revel . For this gift, as well as the troductn to the glor in known as Faye Dunaway, I will always thk of “Bonnie and Cly” as my first gay movie experience.
In a way, the movie’s accsibily also allowed me to appreciate the movie on the surface to people while also beg able to vertly enjoy how gay was (that bathtub scene). But my homo and trans-ish 13-year-old self latched onto our monaly of shame and Felli’s wonrful intifitn wh and pictn of THE LOVER ― lovg sire and the imagatn. I had no homo and/or trans cema exampl when I was young, so I enveloped myself Felli, shaphiftg orr to satisfy my sire and exprs myself until I uld make my own story, “Boys Don’t Cry.
A REVIEW OF GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS? BY EMANUEL LEVY
” Wrten and directed by Patricia Rozema, this offbeat, charmg 1995 film about a betiful Christian llege profsor who falls for an equally betiful circ performer rocked my ty gay world. Charl Rogers (“Search Party, ” “Fort Tiln”)His pick: “Addams Fay Valu”I feel pretty lucky to have grown up a gay kid the early ’90s. I was workg as an her at the Natnal Film Theatre London, and “Betiful Thg” by Hettie Macdonald was havg s world premiere at the Lbian and Gay Film Ftival.
It was the first time I felt that beg openly gay was an actual possibily for me, and, more than that, uld be a betiful thg. The Emerald Cy sequence alone might be why I’m gay, or at least why I know my heart that beg gay is betiful.
GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS? : PEDRO ALMODÂOVAR, TERENCE DAVI, TODD HAYN, G VAN SANT, JOHN WATERS
That same year, my mother took me to see “Cabaret” (was she tryg to make me gay or what? That movie rocked my world; was filled wh wty and pretty young people havg sex wh each other and not worryg about who was gay or straight.
One gay on-screen moment I will never fet was when Mart Srse showed two hot leather-clad men serly makg out a bar “After Hours” wh nonchalant straight men standg around them.