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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... gender differ from the majority are out about their identities , and that some , especially in certain urban and academic communities , are able to explore the boundaries of sexuality and identity , but it's important to be aware that ...
... gender differ from the majority are out about their identities , and that some , especially in certain urban and academic communities , are able to explore the boundaries of sexuality and identity , but it's important to be aware that ...
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... gender . I've used some important ideas from this discussion , though I've tried to present them in a way that those ... gender from lesbian and gay / gender / queer studies with which they may not be familiar . Rather than quoting ...
... gender . I've used some important ideas from this discussion , though I've tried to present them in a way that those ... gender from lesbian and gay / gender / queer studies with which they may not be familiar . Rather than quoting ...
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... gender . My purpose here , though , is to focus on what Brokeback Mountain says about the lives of men who love men , especially those who may not have access to knowledge about men like themselves because of the circumstances of their ...
... gender . My purpose here , though , is to focus on what Brokeback Mountain says about the lives of men who love men , especially those who may not have access to knowledge about men like themselves because of the circumstances of their ...
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... from literary history and cultural history or from theories about gender and homophobia , I've sought to make them accessible to the general reader who shares my interests and my admiration for xvi Introduction : About the Book.
... from literary history and cultural history or from theories about gender and homophobia , I've sought to make them accessible to the general reader who shares my interests and my admiration for xvi Introduction : About the Book.
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... gender involves forms of self - understanding and behavior that are taught to people by the societies they live in . Because experiences of sexuality and gender differ with social con- text and time period , it really is more accurate ...
... gender involves forms of self - understanding and behavior that are taught to people by the societies they live in . Because experiences of sexuality and gender differ with social con- text and time period , it really is more accurate ...
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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