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Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond => Brokeback Mountain Open Forum => Topic started by: MaineWriter on June 06, 2010, 08:57:53 am

Title: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: MaineWriter on June 06, 2010, 08:57:53 am

At $80 this book might be a little pricey but I thought the Brokies here might still be interested.

(http://rainbow-reviews.com/book-covers/brokebackmountainanamericanidiesseries.jpg)

The blurb:

Upon its release in 2005, "Brokeback Mountain" became a major cultural event and a milestone in independent American filmmaking. Based on the short story by Annie Proulx and directed by Ang Lee, "Brokeback Mountain" situated a love story between two closeted cowboys at the heart of American mythology, film spectatorship, and genre. "Brokeback Mountain" offered an independent and queer revision of the conventions and cliches of the western and the melodrama through a studied exploration of homophobia and the closet. This book examines "Brokeback Mountain" in relation to indie cinema, genre, spectatorship, editing, and homosexuality. In doing so it brings film studies and queer theory into dialogue with one another and explains the importance of "Brokeback Mountain" as both a contemporary independent and queer film.

Key features:

1. An overview of independent cinema vs. Indie films;
2. Analyses how/if "Brokeback Mountain" fits within the enduring historical genre called the Western;
3. Analyses "Brokeback Mountain" as a melodrama, examining the film’s relationship to concepts of pathos, backward feelings and passivity.
4. Propose a new way of thinking about gay spectatorship.

You can read a review here: http://www.rainbow-reviews.com/?p=6274

L

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: southendmd on June 06, 2010, 10:52:30 am

Good book, Leslie!

Forget $80.  I got it on ebay for about $20.  There are several copies available now.

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: MaineWriter on June 06, 2010, 01:29:41 pm

Quote from: southendmd on June 06, 2010, 10:52:30 am

Good book, Leslie!

Forget $80.  I got it on ebay for about $20.  There are several copies available now.

$20 is reasonable. I might go check it out...thanks, Paul.

L

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: Brown Eyes on June 06, 2010, 01:35:21 pm

Looks really interesting!  Thanks for posting the info.

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on June 06, 2010, 09:45:49 pm

Leslie, that is your 14,000th post.

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: Ellemeno on June 21, 2010, 01:39:48 pm

Why "American Indies?" 

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: Ellemeno on June 21, 2010, 01:40:44 pm

Oh.  Only after I posted that did I realize it wasn't like "East Indies" or "West Indies."  D'OH!

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on June 21, 2010, 02:30:51 pm

Quote from: Ellemeno on June 21, 2010, 01:40:44 pm

Oh.  Only after I posted that did I realize it wasn't like "East Indies" or "West Indies."  D'OH!

That confused me, too, at first.  :-\

Title: Re: Brokeback Mountain: American Indies (new book)
Post by: Front-Ranger on August 30, 2010, 04:28:40 am

What did you think of the book, Paul?