Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2011.

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Additional Authors

Handley, William R.

Description

xii, 386 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Proulx, Annie
• Brokeback Mountain (Motion picture)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: the pasts and futures of a story and a film / William R. Handley -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Sympathy, melodrama, and passion. Mother twist: Brokeback Mountain and male melodrama / Susan McCabe -- Passion and sympathy in Brokeback Mountain / Calvin Bedient.

ISBN

• 9780803226647 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0803226640 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010038342

OCLC

664555777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library