[ecrea] New book: Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness

This book may be of interest to those in cinema studies, media studies,
film music, or queer studies.
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/Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness/

by Jack Curtis Dubowsky

Palgrave Macmillan

2016

http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137454201
http://www.amazon.com/Intersecting-Queerness-Palgrave-Studies-Audio-Visual/dp/1137454202 



*Description*
/Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness/ uses musicology and queer
theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. This
study considers how queer readings are reinforced or nuanced through
analysis of musical score. Taking a broad approach to queerness that
questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures,
binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book
challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is
retrogressive in cinema. Examined films include /Bride of Frankenstein,
Louisiana Story, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Blazing Saddles, Edward
Scissorhands, Brokeback Mountain, Boys Don't Cry, Transamerica, Thelma &
Louise, Go Fish, /and/ The Living End,/ with special attention given to
films that subvert or complicate genre. Music is analyzed with concern
for composition, intertextual references, absolute musical structures,
song lyrics, recording, arrangement, and performance issues. This
multidisciplinary work, featuring groundbreaking research, analysis, and
theory, offers new close readings and a model for future scholarship.

‘A pleasure to read throughout! Dubowsky's scholarship is meticulous,
his critical sense alert and intelligent, and his range of knowledge is
marvelous. Plus, he writes with a clear mind and a clean prose.
This book will count for scholars of music, LGBTQ studies, American
history, and film.’
*Mitchell Morris
Professor of Musicology, UCLA*

‘Jack Curtis Dubowsky's /Intersecting Film Music and Queerness/ provides
a fresh and exciting analysis of cinema and sound, offering fascinating
insight into the relationship between soundtracks and the sexuality and
gender of the musicians who made them. The book weaves film studies,
musicology, and queer theory into a compelling interpretive mesh for
academic audiences, while serving up enough biographical tidbits and
interesting anecdotes to please even the most hardcore fans and
enthusiasts.’
*Susan Stryker, Ph.D.
Director, Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona*

*Table of Contents*
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Mad About The Boy: Male Homosexuality and Music in Film
1. /Louisiana Story,/ Homoeroticism, and Americana
2. Musical Cachet in /The Living End/ and the New Queer Cinema
3. /Brokeback Mountain/ Music
PART II: Fighting the Patriarchy: Dykes, Misogyny, and Gender Fear
4. A Tale of Two Walters: Genre and Gender Outsiders
5. Mainstreaming and Rebelling
PART III: Queering of Genre
6. Queer Monster Good: /Frankenstein/ and /Edward Scissorhands/
7. /Blazing Saddles/: Music and Meaning in 'The French Mistake'
8. Conclusion
Index


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