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Kd5000:
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Reading Brokeback Mountain: Essays on the Story and the Film (Paperback)
by Jim Stacy (Author)
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List Price: $35.00 
Price: $35.00 


Anybody heard of this book or Jim Stacey. It was justed listed 7.17.07.  It seems to be the first book on film the author has edited.  No reviews posted yet, so has anyone got the scoop on this book?

Thanks

Toast:
Wow Kd5000, Thanks for the question.
I'd love to see that book.



Link to company brochure.



From Barnes and Noble:

From the Publisher
This collection offers 15 critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its controversial film adaptation by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and director Ang Lee. Each essay explores the short story, the film, and the sociocultural phenomenon that followed the release of the motion picture in December 2005.
This anthology includes selections from traditional perspectives and from postmodern angles, including women's studies, gender studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and American studies. Many of the essays focus primarily on the film, its critical reception, its stars, its director, its soundtrack, and its cultural implications.

Available August 28 from Barnes and Noble. B&N Listing

So we probably won't get any reviews until the book ships in late August.
Mmmm.   Too bad.

Toast:
Reading Brokeback Mountain
Essays on the Story and the Film
Edited by Jim Stacy
ISBN 0-7864-3044-3

$35

Table of Contents


* Acknowledgments       vii
* Preface      1
* 01. Arcadia and the Passionate Shepherds of Brokeback Mountain      5
* 02. Proulx’s Pastoral: Brokeback Mountain as Sacred Space      19
* 03. Buried in the Family Plot: The Cost of Pattern Maintenance to Ennis and Jack      29
* 04. Love and Death in an American Story: A “Vulgar” Reading of Brokeback Mountain      45
* 05. The “Gay Film” That Wasn’t: The Heterosexual Supplement in Brokeback Mountain      59
* 06. Gay Cowboys Close to Home: Ennis Del Mar on the Q.T.      71
* 07. “When This Thing Grabs Hold of Us...”: Spatial Myth, Rhetoric, and Conceptual Blending in Brokeback Mountain      88
* 08. From “Nature’s Love” to Natural Love: Brokeback Mountain, Universal Identification, and Gay Politics      106
* 09. Broke(n)back Faggots: Hollywood Gives Queers a Hobson’s Choice      118
* 10. Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars      135
* 11. Whiteness of a Different Kind of Love: Letting Race and Sexuality Talk      152
* 12. The Queerness of Country: Brokeback’s Soundscape      163
* 13. Performing “Lonesome Cowboy” and “Jack Nasty”: The Stars’ Negotiation of Norms and Desires      178
* 14. Lessons Learned on Brokeback Mountain: Expanding the Possibilities of American Manhood      188
* 15. Love and Silence, Penguins and Possibility      205
* Select Bibliography      221
* About the Contributors      227
* Index      231

Link

Toast:


Dr. James StacyAssociate Professor of Communication Studies
 and Theatre and Director of Theatre Coughlin Hall 219
Louisiana State University at Alexandria Campus

Dr. Jim Stacy
A native of Lake Charles, Dr. Stacy teaches speech and theatre, and also serves as Director of Theatre at LSUA. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English education from McNeese, a master’s in speech from LSU, and a doctorate in performance studies from New York University, where he was a Shubert fellow. He has acted and directed professionally, and taught at Northwestern, Northern Kentucky, Loyola of Chicago, and DePaul.
   

retropian:
Looks interesting. I'll be making that purchase for sure. I hope it does well.

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