GAY DIRECTORS, GAY FILMS? / PEDRO ALMODÓVAR, TERENCE DAVIES, TODD HAYNES, GUS VAN SANT, JOHN WATERS

Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors, this book develops a framework for inter preting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of view. For most of the twentieth century, gay characters and gay the mes were both underrepresented and misrepresented in mainstream cinema. Since the 1970s, however, a new generation of openly gay dir ectors has turned the closet inside out, bringing a new and poignant immediacy to modern cinema and popular culture. Combining his e xperienc...[Read more]