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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
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Wow Kd5000, Thanks for the question.
I'd love to see that book.
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Link to company brochure. (http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/pdfs/New%20Performing%20Arts%20Books%20Brochure%202007.pdf)
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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 (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&endeca=1&isbn=0786430443&itm=10)
So we probably won't get any reviews until the book ships in late August.
Mmmm. Too bad.
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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 (http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/contents-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3044-4)
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Dr. James Stacy
Associate 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.
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Looks interesting. I'll be making that purchase for sure. I hope it does well.
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For the millionth time I think about all the book content that has been posted by us here and at IMDb.... sigh.
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It would be interesting to knew who the contributors are. I wouldn't be thrilled, for example, to see David Ehrenstein or Camille Paglia do another hatchet job on the beautiful film adaptation and the masterful original story.
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I have never heard of that publisher so I checked out their website. They've got some good stuff. Have to keep them as a "favorite" to look at latter.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/searches/browse_all_categories2.php?cat=Interdisciplinary+Studies%2FGay+%26+Lesbian+Studies
Classical Origins of Modern Homophobia
Allen
Lesbian Detective Fiction
Betz
The Consolation of Otherness
Curr
Ramon Novarro
Ellenberger
Straight Writ Queer
Fantina
Tony Kushner
Fisher
Mike Connolly and the Manly Art of Hollywood Gossip
Holley
Christopher Isherwood Encyclopedia
Izzo
The New Queer Aesthetic on Television
Keller
Queer (Un)Friendly Film and Television
Keller
Anne Rice and Sexual Politics
Keller
The Gay Detective Novel
Markowitz
The Beat Generation and the Popular Novel in the United States, 1945–1970
Newhouse
The Films of Derek Jarman
Pencak
Documenting Gay Men
Pullen
Federico García Lorca and the Culture of Male Homosexuality
Sahuquillo
Reading Brokeback Mountain
Stacy
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I pre-ordered this book on amazon as soon as they sent me the "we have recommendations for you" thing, and have been waiting for the book for about a month. They've told me 3 times so far that its release had to be postponed. I hope it does come out end of August, as I am curious to read and see if it says anything WE haven't thought of for ourselves here...
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I've had this link bookmarked for quite a while. It always said "coming soon" but it now says "Available for immediate shipment" :D
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?isbn=0-7864-3044-3
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It would be interesting to knew who the contributors are. I wouldn't be thrilled, for example, to see David Ehrenstein or Camille Paglia do another hatchet job on the beautiful film adaptation and the masterful original story.
This book just came through my library's mail room this morning. It was my first encounter with a physical copy, and my first chance to glance through the contents. I am relieved to report that neither Ehrenstein nor Paglia (admittedly excellent critics and writers) make appearances here.
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Interesting, Scott! Tell us more! Thanks for being our advance guard.
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Yesterday, I ordered a slighty used Beyond Brokeback: The Impact of a Film by Members of the Ultimate Brokeback Forum .
It was only USD 10.50 plus shipping.
I will eagerly await Scott's comments about Reading Brokeback Mountain: Essays on the Story and the Film by Jim Stacy
before I fork over USD 25.00 plus shipping.
Mr. Stacey teaches at a college about a three hour drive from where I reside. Would be interesting to pay him a visit. ;)
So keep us advised Scott.
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I will eagerly await Scott's comments about Reading Brokeback Mountain: Essays on the Story and the Film by Jim Stacy
before I fork over USD 25.00 plus shipping.
Mr. Stacey teaches at a college about a three hour drive from where I reside. Would be interesting to pay him a visit. ;)
So keep us advised Scott.
Hey Bud, that would be really neat if you got to meet Stacey. I wonder if he knows about BetterMost.
Ya know, we should write a book too. If we edited some of the better threads and posts from Open Forum and put them all together, I'm sure we could come up with our own, very respectable book of essays about Brokeback.
:D
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This is interesting. There were also two other professors, William Handley from USC and Jesse Matz from Kenyon who were going to do a Brokeback book with essays from various contributors. I wonder whatever happened to that project?
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