100 Queer Films Before Stonewall
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Description
The Stonewall riots were a turning point in queer history, sparking the foundation of the modern Gay Liberation Movement. This book explores LGBTQ+ representation in film through 100 features and shorts released in or before 1969, in the pre-Stonewall era. Despite prevalent hostile attitudes towards queer people in this time, queer representation nonetheless flourished in the first 75 years of cinema. This book explores a selection pathbreaking works, including Mädchen in Uniform (1931, Germany), Victim (1961, UK) and Portrait of Jason (1967, USA), People in the Summer Night (1947, Finland), It's All Because of a Katoey (1954, Thailand) and Diferente (1962, Spain). Looking beyond anglophone cinema, films from Africa, Asia, Continental Europe, Oceania and South America are also spotlighted.
100 Queer Films before Stonewall demonstrates that LGBTQ+ characters have been part of global cinema history from its birth, sometimes hidden in plain sight, in mainstream Hollywood films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940, USA) as well as underground cult classics and bold experimental art films such as Andy Warhol's Blow Job (1964). The book examines how queer characters are portrayed and sometimes coded, visible on screen even at times of severe film censorship and repressive legislation against LGBTQ+ people, challenging the received canon of great queer films and opening a new selection of world cinema greats for audiences to discover.
Table of Contents
1. The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (William Dixon, 1895, USA)
2. Algie the Miner (Alice Guy-Blaché, 1912, USA)
3. Ich möchte kein Mann sein (I Don't Want to Be a Man) (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918, Germany)
4. Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) (Richard Oswald, 1919, Germany)
5. Le Ménage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly (Bernard Natan, 1920, France)
6. Salomé (Charles Bryant, 1923, USA)
7. Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1924, Germany)
8. Bed and Sofa (Abram Room, 1927, USSR)
9. Geschlecht in Fesseln – Die Sexualnot der Strafgefangenen (Sex in Chains) (William Dieterle, 1928, Germany)
10. Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box) (Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1929, Germany)
11. The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner, 1929, USA)
12. Borderline (Kenneth MacPherson, 1930, UK)
13. Morocco (Josef von Sternberg, 1930, USA)
14. Mädchen in Uniform (Leontine Sagan, 1931, Germany)
15. Le sang d'un poète (The Blood of a Poet) (Jean Cocteau, 1932, France)
16. Lot in Sodom (James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber, 1933, USA)
17. Queen Christina (Rouben Mamoulian, 1933, USA)
18. Dalu (The Big Road) (Sun Yu, 1934, China)
19. First a Girl (Victor Saville, 1935, UK)
20. Club de femmes (Jacques Deval, 1936, France)
21. Dracula's Daughter (Lambert Hillyer, 1936, USA)
22. La Garçonne (Jean de Limur, 1936, France)
23. Rangle River (Clarence G. Badger, 1936, Australia)
24. Dance, Girl, Dance (Dorothy Arzner, 1940, USA)
25. Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940, USA)
26. Ossessione (Luchino Visconti, 1943, Italy)
27. Fireworks (Kenneth Anger, 1947, USA)
28. Ihmiset suviyössä (People in the Summer Night) (Valentin Vaala, 1947, Finland)
29. Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948, USA)
30. Christmas USA (Gregory Markopolous, 1949, USA)
31. Caged (John Cromwell, 1950, USA)
32. Flicka och hyacinter (Girl with Hyacinths) (Hasse Ekman, 1950 Sweden)
33. Mona's Candle Light (director unknown, 1950, USA)
34. Un chant d'amour (Jean Genet, 1950, France)
35. Muchachas de Uniforme (Alfredo B. Crevenna, 1951, Mexico)
36. Olivia (Jacqueline Audry, 1951, France)
37. Adam est... Ève (René Gaveau, 1954, France)
38. Huis Clos (Jacqueline Audry, 1954, France)
39. It's All Because of a Katoey (director unknown, 1954, Thailand)
40. Last Spring (François Reichenbach, 1954, France)
41. El-Anesah Hanafi (Miss Hanafi) (Fatin Abdel Wahab, 1954, Egypt)
42. Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955, USA)
43. Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, 1956, USA)
44. 42nd St Hood (Bob Mizer, c1957, USA)
45. Anders als du und ich (Different from You and Me) (Veit Harlan, 1957, West Germany)
46. Bundfald (Sin Alley) (Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt, Robert Saaskin, 1957, Denmark)
47. Bab el hadid (Cairo Station) (Youssef Chahine, 1958, Egypt)
48. Compulsion (Richard Fleischer, 1959, USA)
49. The Purple Hairpin (Tit Lee, 1959, Hong Kong / China)
50. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959, USA)
51. Suddenly Last Summer (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959, USA)
52. The Trials of Oscar Wilde (Ken Hughes, 1960, UK)
53. Boys Beware (Sid Davis, 1961, USA)
54. The Children's Hour (William Wyler, 1961, USA)
55. A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961, UK)
56. Victim (Basil Dearden, 1961, UK)
57. Diferente (Luis María Delgado, 1962, Spain)
58. Il Mare (The Sea) (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1962, Italy)
59. Yukinojô henge (An Actor's Revenge) (Kon Ichikawa, 1963, Japan)
60. À tout prendre (Claude Jutra, 1963, Canada)
61. Blow Job (Andy Warhol, 1963, USA)
62. Christmas on Earth (Barbara Rubin, 1963, USA)
63. Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963, USA)
64. Liang Shan Bo yu Zhu Ying Tai (The Love Eterne) (Li Han Hsiang, 1963, Hong Kong / China)
65. Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger, 1963, USA)
66. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman, 1963, Sweden)
67. Les amitiés particulières (Special Friendships) (Jean Delannoy, 1964, France)
68. For Men Only (Mahmoud Zulfikar, 1964, Egypt)
69. Manji (Yasuzo Masumura, 1964, Japan)
70. Extraña ternura (Daniel Tinayre, 1964, Argentina)
71. Älskande par (Loving Couples) (Mai Zetterling, 1964, Sweden)
72. Wutai jiemei (Two Stage Sisters) (Xie Jin, 1964, China)
73. Dream A40 (Lloyd Reckord, 1965, UK)
74. Haremde Dört Kadin (Halit Refig, 1965, Turkey)
75. Jerovi (José Rodríguez-Soltero, 1965, USA)
76. O Beijo (The Kiss) (Flávio Tambellini, 1965, Brazil)
77. Gaetmaeul (The Seashore Village) (Soo-yong Kim, 1965, South Korea)
78. Winter Kept Us Warm (David Secter, 1965, Canada)
79. Autrefois J'ai aime une femme (Edward Owen, 1966, USA)
80. O Menino e o Vento (The Boy and The Wind) (Carlos Hugo Christensen, 1966, Brazil)
81. Scopo (Peter de Rome, 1966, USA)
82. Behind Every Good Man (1967, USA)
83. Dead Youth (1967, Donald Richie, Japan)
84. Vortex or The Face of Medusa (1967, Nikos Koundouros, Greece)
85. The Fox (Mark Rydell, 1967, USA)
86. Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke, 1967, USA)
87. Eat Your Makeup (John Waters, 1968, USA)
88. The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldrich, 1968, USA)
89. Les Biches (Claude Chabrol, 1968, France)
90. Um Clássico, Dois em Casa, Nenhum Jogo Fora (Djalma Limongi Batista, 1968, Brazil)
91. The Queen (Frank Simon, 1968, USA)
92. Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968, Italy)
93. Therese et Isabelle (Radley Metzger, 1968, France)
94. Údolí vcel (Valley of the Bees) (Frantisek Vlácil, 1968, Czechoslovakia)
95. Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni (Birds, Orphans and Fools) (Juraj Jakubisko, 1969, Czechoslovakia)
96. Sayat Nova (The Colour of Pomegranates) (Sergei Parajanov, 1969, USSR)
97. Facifica Falayfay (Luciano B. Carlos, 1969, Philippines)
98. Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (Love is Colder Than Death) (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969, West Germany)
99. Namjawa Gisaeng (A Man And a Gisaeng) (Woo-seob Shim, Shin Sang-ok, Wu-Soeb Shim, 1969, South Korea)
100. Modisto de señoras (René Cardona Jr., 1969, Mexico)
Product details
| Published | Mar 04 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781839027260 |
| Imprint | British Film Institute |
| Illustrations | 100 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 7 x 8 inches |
| Series | BFI Screen Guides |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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