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Pride Month 2023
This year for Pride Month we want to highlight our Queer Film Classics series to celebrate 2SLGBTQ+ representation in film. Each book in the series offers a critical analysis of a queer film and the surrounding culture and reception, exploring why these works should be considered classics of queer cinema. In a style that is at once scholarly and personal, authors expand the sexual identity discourse by engaging the political, historical, cultural, and aesthetic facets of each film.
In an interview with the series editors, Thomas Waugh and Matthew Hays, authors Jon Towlson, Mikhel Proulx, and Julie Vaillancourt discuss their recent and forthcoming books as well as their personal relationships with queer cinema. The interview can be found here. Waugh also interviewed Maria San Filippo and Russell Sheaffer about the films featured in their books, Appropriate Behavior (2014) and Orlando (1992). This interview can be found here.
Browse the complete (for now!) offerings of the Queer Film Classics series below! Many more books to come…
Happy Pride!
Maurice
By David Greven
Maurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated positive depiction of gay love.
Anders als die Andern
By Ervin Malakaj
Released in 1919, Anders als die Andern is a remarkable artefact of the pre-Stonewall homosexual rights movement of early-twentieth-century Germany. Ervin Malakaj shows how the film’s “mournful cinema” is key to its endurance, fostering connection through emotions and acting as a springboard to engage in an intergenerational queer struggle.
À tout prendre et Il était une fois dans l’Est
Midnight Cowboy
By Jon Towlson
An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon Towlson argues for a new interpretation of the film as a proto-queer buddy movie and portrait of a friendship.
Appropriate Behavior
Maria San Filippo explores Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature, Appropriate Behavior (2014), as an instant classic of 2010’s US indie filmmaking, a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, a model for feminist-queer creative collaboration, and an unparalleled portrayal of bisexuality.
Orlando
A film that transcends time, Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Russell Sheaffer meticulously charts the distinct shift from lesbian feminist text to queer film classic.
Boys Don’t Cry
The Oscar-winning film Boys Don’t Cry (1999) offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America. Authors Morgan Page and Chase Joynt relocate the film within historical and conceptual contexts that influenced its ambivalent reception while emphasizing the importance of trans visibilities and representations in the mainstream.
L’homme blessé
Robert Payne guides readers through the powerfully erotic underworld of L’Homme blessé, giving the cinematic milestone the critical attention it deserves. Combining formal analysis, historical research, and original interviews, this book cements L’Homme blessé in its rightful place within queer cultural history.
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