Queer Screen: The Screen Reader

Stacey (cultural and women's studies, Lancaster U., UK) and Street (film, U. of Bristol) searched two decades of issues of the Screen film journal to compile these 17 articles on queer films--explorations of deviance from heterosexuality in both explicit and subtle modes, as influenced by either the screenwriting, direction, acting, and/or audience reception. Films such as Alien Resurrection, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pedro Almodovar's The Law of Desire are examined, along with less mainstream works by Richard Fung, Ulrike Ottinger, and others. Among the themes explored are: queerness and technology, racialization in Joanna d'Arc of Mongolia, and representations of the queer body. The final section comprises six critical discussions of Boys Don't Cry debating its pitfalls and achievements in the frame of queer theory and transsexual identity. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jackie Stacey is Professor of Cultural Studies and Women's Studies in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Her publications include Star Gazing: Female Spectatorship and Hollywood Cinema (1994) and Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer (1997). She is co-editor of Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies (1991), Romance Revisited (1993), Screen Histories Reader (1998) and Thinking Through the Skin (2001) and co-author of Global Nature, Global Culture (2000). She has been a co-editor of Screen since 1994.

Sarah Street is Professor of Film at the University of Bristol. Her publications include Cinema and State (1985); British National Cinema (1997); British Cinema in Documents (2000); European Cinema (2000); Moving Performance: British Stage and Screen (2000); Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA (2002), The Titanic in Myth and Memory (2004) and Black Narcissus (2005). She has been a co-editor of Screen since 2001.