On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the FilmOn Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in American culture. It uses analytical ideas from gay and lesbian/queer studies, American studies, social history, film history, and literary history, but avoids specialized theoretical language in order to be accessible to the many people interested in the story and the film. Original, interdisciplinary, and engaging, On Brokeback Mountain is intended to be not only useful to academic specialists but also accessible and readable for any interested, educated reader. The two versions of Brokeback Mountain are significant for taking readers and audiences inside the perspectives of men who love men, showing what physical and emotional passion, and hostility toward that passion, may be like for them. The story and the film help in understanding the many men who love men and who don't fit stereotypes of gay men or participate in the gay/queer worlds of urban/academic communities, especially men in rural areas and in working class contexts. This book examines the presentation of friendship, sex, and love between men in Brokeback Mountain, as well as the depiction of homophobia and its effects on men who love men and their families. It relates the story and the film to the literary tradition of the homoerotic pastoral, the literary/movie tradition of the Western, and the tradition of the tragic romantic love story. |
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... discussion draws on my background in teaching American cultural studies , American literature , and gay and lesbian studies , and I hope will interest some in those fields , but my goal is to provide a generally accessible discussion of ...
... discussion draws on my background in teaching American cultural studies , American literature , and gay and lesbian studies , and I hope will interest some in those fields , but my goal is to provide a generally accessible discussion of ...
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... discussion will be limited in regard to place , time , and race as well , though at points I'll seek to consider how ... discussion I make no pretense of a neutral perspective . Though I have criticisms of limitations in both the story ...
... discussion will be limited in regard to place , time , and race as well , though at points I'll seek to consider how ... discussion I make no pretense of a neutral perspective . Though I have criticisms of limitations in both the story ...
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... discussion to make a personal reading and reflection on the meanings of the story and the film . OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK Here's a brief overview of the main issues that I discuss in the book . Proba- bly the most important aspect of ...
... discussion to make a personal reading and reflection on the meanings of the story and the film . OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK Here's a brief overview of the main issues that I discuss in the book . Proba- bly the most important aspect of ...
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... discussion of the reception of the movie can assist readers of this book by pro- viding examples of some of the most powerful negative stereotypes that are confronted in the story and the film . Following the Introduction : About the Book ...
... discussion of the reception of the movie can assist readers of this book by pro- viding examples of some of the most powerful negative stereotypes that are confronted in the story and the film . Following the Introduction : About the Book ...
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... discussing the story in relation to Proulx's other fiction or the film in relation to other work by the director and screenwriters . Throughout this discussion , my goal is to relate the story and the film to the larger cultural issues ...
... discussing the story in relation to Proulx's other fiction or the film in relation to other work by the director and screenwriters . Throughout this discussion , my goal is to relate the story and the film to the larger cultural issues ...
Contents
Reactions To Brokeback Mountain | xlv |
A Companion Where None Had Been Expected Friendship | 1 |
Guns Goin Off Sex | 41 |
The Rushing Cold of the Mountain Nature | 73 |
We Do That in the Wrong Place Well Be Dead Hatred and Fear | 135 |
Separate and Difficult Lives Love | 177 |
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