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How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video
Author(s): Bad Object-Choices (Author)
- Publisher: Bay Press
- Publication Date: July 1, 1991
- Language: English
- Print length: 295 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780941920209
- ISBN-13: 9780941920209
Book Description
Nonfiction. “HOW DO I LOOK? is an articulation of that dream in the dark we’ve all had-gazing at those flickering images, searching for ourselves and too often settling for less. This collection begins to ask the provocative questions we dared not ask aloud. As lesbians and gays, as people of color, whose vision will we accept? The questions here are full of pain and clarity”-Jewelle Gomez.
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This is a compendium of six updated papers/discussions delivered at a 1989 conference of the same name. From “The Contemporary Political Use of Gay History” to “Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary,” the examples discussed are mostly nonmainstream shorts, documentaries and features by and/or about “queers.” With mixed vernaculars of (sub-)culture specific slang and semantically precise academe, the speakers/writers convey in tone the overlaying complexity of the subject matter. Raising more questions than any one book could hope to answer, the texts survey the broad set of problems which will be confronting lesbian/gay culture for the next decade. If this sounds confusing, even overwhelming at times, it is. It is also a brilliant look at very “hot” issues not often enough given a chance to appear between covers: the correlation (or lack of) between racism and homophobia; feminist theories’ ignorance of a sexual lesbian perspective; and AIDS altering of the meaning of pornography. Highly recommended for all film theory or multicultural collections.
– Eric Bryant, “Library Journal”
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
– Eric Bryant, “Library Journal”
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
