SUNY Press Catalog - Spring 2009 - (Page 49) film studies Griffin comp c (CMYK) cover:Suny Press 4/8/08 4:22 PM Page 2 HETERO Queering Representations of Straightness Sean Griffin, editor Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film. This collection brings the insights of queer theory to bear on cinematic representations of straightness. Spanning decades and cultures, from silent Hollywood films to modern Mumbai cinema, the essays in Hetero uncover multiple forms of heterosexual desire and demonstrate that heterosexuality is in fact a heavily contested terrain. Movies often become a place where one specific “heteronormative” ideal is upheld as proper, while other types of heterosexuality are denied or pathologized. By investigating how heterosexuality functions as a social construct, these essays deconstruct normative heterosexuality’s simultaneous omnipresence and invisibility, effectively breaking down the barriers of sexual identity. Hetero offers a collective call to expand the ways in which queer theory is applied and put into practical use, and exposes the queer nature of the love that does dare speak its name. Sean Griffin is Associate Professor in the Division of Cinema-Television at Southern Methodist University. A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema Murray Pomerance, editor ECOLOGY AND POPULAR FILM CINEMA ON THE EDGE ECOLOGy AND pOpuLAR FILM Cinema on the Edge Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann Ecocritical takes on popular film. HeTerO edited by Sean Griffin Queering representations of straightness A volume in the SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema Murray Pomerance, editor JANuARy • 304 pp • 40 b/w photographs $24.95 pb 978-0-7914-7678-9 $74.50 hc 978-0-7914-7677-2 MAy • 272 pp • 13 b/w photographs $24.95 pb 978-1-4384-2618-1 $74.50 hc 978-1-4384-2617-4 e e 49 www.sunypress.edu CONTRIBuTORS Harry M. Benshoff U. of N. TX Allan Campbell U. of TX, Austin Michael DeAngelis DePaul U. David A. Gerstner CUNY, Staten Island Sean Griffin Southern Methodist U. Mary Beth Haralovich U. of AZ, Tucson Kevin Heffernan Southern Methodist U. David Lugowski Manhattanville Coll. Adrienne L. McLean U. of TX, Dallas Diane Negra U. of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Bashkar Sarkar U. of CA, Santa Barbara Victoria Sturtevant U. of OK Louise Wallenberg Stockholm U. Ecology and Popular Film examines representations of nature in mainstream film ROBIN L. MURRAY AND JOSEPH K. HEUMANN while also looking at film itself as a form of nature writing. Considering a selection of mainstream movies that embrace a wide variety of environmental themes, from the Lumières’ Oil Wells of Baku (1896) to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Murray and Heumann explore such themes as environmental politics, eco-terrorism, ecology and home, tragic and comic eco-heroes, the spectacular, and evolutionary narrative, in a manner that is both accessible and fun. Other films discussed include The River (1937), Soylent Green (1971), Pale Rider (1985), 28 Days Later (2002), and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). The book also includes a comprehensive filmography of films that deal with environmental themes and issues. “The authors discover something like an ‘ecological consciousness’ at work in popular film, finding that movies as diverse as Pale Rider and Eight Legged Freaks bring to light largescale concerns about ecological well-being, and what might be called ecological trauma—opening up a space for hope and change.” — James Morrison, author of Roman Polanski At Eastern Illinois University, Robin L. Murray is Professor of English and Joseph K. Heumann is Professor of Communication Studies. http://www.sunypress.edu http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61734 http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61805
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