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BL
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634528
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Vicari, Justin,1968-
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| Title & Author
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Male bisexuality in current cinema : : images of growth, rebellion and survival /\ Justin Vicari
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| Publication Statement
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Jefferson, N.C. :: McFarland & Co.,, c2011
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viii, 247 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780786461608 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0786461608 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Preface -- Introduction: searching for Bob Elkin -- Personal visions. Fifteen minutes of the future: Francois Ozon's A summer dress -- To bend without breaking: bisexuality and adaptation in the films of Andre Tichin -- Tentative, tender ... and trendy? Gregg Araki's Teen trilogy -- Rock star bisexuality in Todd Haynes' Velvet goldmine -- For whom the bi tolls: Craig Lucas' The dying Gaul and Ozon's Water drops on burning rocks -- Alone and with others. Making the man: the bisexual hero -- Illegible patriarchies: bisexualizing the family -- Fazes and mazes: inside the triangle -- Matters of love and death. The schoolboy crush and its ambiguous object -- Turning it on and off: "bi for pay" -- Allegories of AIDS -- In his wake: the strange power of the dead bisexual -- At the limits of heterosexuality: the woman's viewpoint in Anatomy of hell -- Conclusion: "it's all good."
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| Abstract
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"In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things"--Provided by publisher
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Bisexuality in motion pictures
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Homosexuality in motion pictures
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Men in motion pictures
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/6352663
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PN1995.9.B57V53 2011
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