The Brokeback book : from story to cultural phenomenon / edited by William R. Handley.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.Description: xii, 386 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780803226647
  • 0803226640
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1997.2.B75 B75 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: The pasts and futures of a story and a film / William R. Handley -- Pt. 1. Gay or universal story? Initial debates and cultural contexts. Men in love: is Brokeback Mountain a gay film? / David Leavitt ; An affair to remember / Daniel Mendelsohn ; Response to "An affair to remember" / James Schamus ; The magic mountain / Andrew Holleran ; Backs unbroken: Ang Lee, forbearance, and the closet / Mun-Hou Lo -- Pt. 2. Miles to go and promises to keep: homophobic culture and gay civil rights. Back to the ranch ag'in: Brokeback Mountain and gay civil rights / James Morrison ; Breaking no ground: why Crash won, why Brokeback lost, and how the academy chose to play it safe / Kenneth Turan ; "Jack, I swear": some promises to gay culture from mainstream Hollywood / Chris Freeman ; "Better two than one": the shirts from Brokeback Mountain / Gregory Hinton ; American Eden: nature, homophobic violence, and the social imaginary / Colin Carman ; West of the closet, fear on the range / Alex Hunt -- Pt. 3. Adapting "Brokeback Mountain," queering the western. Interview between Michael Silverblatt and Annie Proulx ; In the shadow of the tire iron / Alan Dale ; Adapting Annie Proulx's story to the mainstream multiplex / Adam Sonstegard ; Not so lonesome cowboys: the queer western / Judith Halberstam -- Pt. 4. Public responses and cultural appropriations. "One dies, the other doesn't": Brokeback and the blogosphere / Noah Tsika ; Making sense of the Brokeback paraphenomenon / David Weiss ; Alberta, authenticity, and queer erasure / Jon Davies -- Pt. 5. Scenes of work and experience in the rural west. Real gay cowboys and Brokeback Mountain / Patricia Nell Warren ; Marx on the mountain: pleasure and the laboring body / Vanessa Osborne ; Personal borders / Martin Aguilera -- Pt. 6. Sympathy, melodrama, and passion. Mother twist: Brokeback Mountain and male melodrama / Susan McCabe ; Passion and sympathy in Brokeback Mountain / Calvin Bedient.
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Brief bio-bibliographical notes on contributors: p. 371-375.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The pasts and futures of a story and a film / William R. Handley -- Pt. 1. Gay or universal story? Initial debates and cultural contexts. Men in love: is Brokeback Mountain a gay film? / David Leavitt ; An affair to remember / Daniel Mendelsohn ; Response to "An affair to remember" / James Schamus ; The magic mountain / Andrew Holleran ; Backs unbroken: Ang Lee, forbearance, and the closet / Mun-Hou Lo -- Pt. 2. Miles to go and promises to keep: homophobic culture and gay civil rights. Back to the ranch ag'in: Brokeback Mountain and gay civil rights / James Morrison ; Breaking no ground: why Crash won, why Brokeback lost, and how the academy chose to play it safe / Kenneth Turan ; "Jack, I swear": some promises to gay culture from mainstream Hollywood / Chris Freeman ; "Better two than one": the shirts from Brokeback Mountain / Gregory Hinton ; American Eden: nature, homophobic violence, and the social imaginary / Colin Carman ; West of the closet, fear on the range / Alex Hunt -- Pt. 3. Adapting "Brokeback Mountain," queering the western. Interview between Michael Silverblatt and Annie Proulx ; In the shadow of the tire iron / Alan Dale ; Adapting Annie Proulx's story to the mainstream multiplex / Adam Sonstegard ; Not so lonesome cowboys: the queer western / Judith Halberstam -- Pt. 4. Public responses and cultural appropriations. "One dies, the other doesn't": Brokeback and the blogosphere / Noah Tsika ; Making sense of the Brokeback paraphenomenon / David Weiss ; Alberta, authenticity, and queer erasure / Jon Davies -- Pt. 5. Scenes of work and experience in the rural west. Real gay cowboys and Brokeback Mountain / Patricia Nell Warren ; Marx on the mountain: pleasure and the laboring body / Vanessa Osborne ; Personal borders / Martin Aguilera -- Pt. 6. Sympathy, melodrama, and passion. Mother twist: Brokeback Mountain and male melodrama / Susan McCabe ; Passion and sympathy in Brokeback Mountain / Calvin Bedient.

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