Reading Brokeback Mountain
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-3044-4 (ISBN)
This collection offers 15 critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its controversial film adaptation by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and director Ang Lee. Each essay explores the short story, the film, and the sociocultural phenomenon that followed the release of the motion picture in December 2005.
This anthology includes selections from traditional perspectives and from postmodern angles, including women's studies, gender studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and American studies. Many of the essays focus primarily on the film, its critical reception, its stars, its director, its soundtrack, and its cultural implications.
Jim Stacy has retired as a professor of theatre and communication studies at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. He has directed and acted in many plays and published widely in theatrical journals. He lives in Welsh, Louisiana.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Arcadia and the Passionate Shepherds of Brokeback Mountain
2. Proulx’s Pastoral: Brokeback Mountain as Sacred Space
3. Buried in the Family Plot: The Cost of Pattern Maintenance to Ennis and Jack
4. Love and Death in an American Story: A “Vulgar” Reading of Brokeback Mountain
5. The “Gay Film” That Wasn’t: The Heterosexual Supplement in Brokeback Mountain
6. Gay Cowboys Close to Home: Ennis Del Mar on the Q.T.
7. “When This Thing Grabs Hold of Us...”: Spatial Myth, Rhetoric, and Conceptual Blending in Brokeback Mountain
8. From “Nature’s Love” to Natural Love: Brokeback Mountain, Universal Identification, and Gay Politics
9. Broke(n)back Faggots: Hollywood Gives Queers a Hobson’s Choice
10. Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars
11. Whiteness of a Different Kind of Love: Letting Race and Sexuality Talk
12. The Queerness of Country: Brokeback’s Soundscape
13. Performing “Lonesome Cowboy” and “Jack Nasty”: The Stars’ Negotiation of Norms and Desires
14. Lessons Learned on Brokeback Mountain: Expanding the Possibilities of American Manhood
15. Love and Silence, Penguins and Possibility
Select Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2007 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | notes, bibliography index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 336 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-3044-3 / 0786430443 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-3044-4 / 9780786430444 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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