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Romance of Transgression in Canada : Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas.
Title:
Romance of Transgression in Canada : Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas.
Author:
Waugh, Thomas.
ISBN:
9780773576803
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (622 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Reader's Guide and Acronyms -- Part One Ten Episodes -- 1 How to Queer Sexualities, Nations, and Cinemas, or The Romance (and Paradoxes) of Transgression in Canada -- 2 Monkey on the Back: Canadian Cinema, Conflicted Masculinities, and Queer Silences in Canada's Cold War -- 3 Sexual Revolution, Canadian Cinema, and Other Queer Paradoxes -- 4 Fairy Tales of Two Cities, or Queer Nation(s)/Urban Cinema(s) -- 5 Passages: Going to Town, Coming of Age -- 6 Forbidden Love, or Queering the National Film Board of Canada -- 7 Boys and the Beast -- 8 Sex, Money and Sobriety -- 9 Anti-Retroviral: "A Test of Who We Are" -- 10 Conclusion: Of Bodies, Shame, and Desire -- Part Two Portrait Gallery -- 350 Movers and Shakers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
From pornography to autobiography, from the Cold War to the sexual revolution, from rural roots and mythologies to the queer meccas of Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal, The Romance of Transgression in Canada is a history of sexual representation on the large and small screen in English Canada and Quebec.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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