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Offline Ellemeno

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2007, 04:19:53 am »
Thought I might shamelessly plug my own book here.... my quarterly royalties check of $1.00 arrived the other day...

http://www.amazon.com/Dreamfilm-Brokeback-Mountain-Daniel-Bates/dp/1425750001


Daniel, thanks for posting the link.  That page needs a product description at least, and some customer reviews!

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2007, 04:39:54 am »
I know... I didn't have enough money for the marketing package... :(  And then things got crazy around here... (I got superinvolved in my other book, Quest of the Unicorn, then had some financial difficulties, then had to work extraordinarily hard to get out of them.... then got involved in politics (a whole other story there, and one I don't think everyone wants to hear).... and then Luke and Noah came on ATWT and its all been a roller coaster ride since then.... :O

But I hear you... the world's not perfect... but then again if it were, where would the challenge be?

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #22 on: December 19, 2007, 07:21:34 pm »
Thought I might shamelessly plug my own book here.... my quarterly royalties check of $1.00 arrived the other day...

http://www.amazon.com/Dreamfilm-Brokeback-Mountain-Daniel-Bates/dp/1425750001

Oh wow Daniel, that's your book. OK stupid question ahead: What is the book about. Yes, yes I know it's about BBM!  :) But is it your interpretation on the movie etc etc?

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #23 on: December 20, 2007, 04:04:02 am »
Hmm, not really. There is one chapter that discusses symbolism, but really it is a book about philosophy, and the ideas that emerged from the film... Ideas that subtly and dramatically alter consciousness... There is also a chapter where I discuss what I perceive a dreamfilm to be and how it fits in with the concepts of humanistic psychology.
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Why do we believe what we believe?
Why do we accept what we accept?
You have a body, a mind, and a soul.... You have a responsibility.

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #24 on: December 20, 2007, 04:39:58 pm »
Hmm, not really. There is one chapter that discusses symbolism, but really it is a book about philosophy, and the ideas that emerged from the film... Ideas that subtly and dramatically alter consciousness... There is also a chapter where I discuss what I perceive a dreamfilm to be and how it fits in with the concepts of humanistic psychology.

Thanks. It sounds interesting.  :)

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #25 on: December 26, 2007, 08:08:06 pm »
OMG, it's out? It's published?! Daniel, I am so proud of you and I can't wait to read this book!! Fuck Reading Brokeback everybody...get Daniel's book!!

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #26 on: December 27, 2007, 07:22:39 pm »
Yep, some positive reviews of your book would help Daniel.  I've never written a review before on AMAZON.com.  I ordered your book yesterday from Amazon.com and look forward to it's arrival.   I've almost finished READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and I think it was a missed opportunity. Not alot of new insights. The books overall theme seemed to be framing  BBM against larger sociocultural considerations.  I will still keep the book. 

I wish someone would put out a book on BBM gathering the most insightfuls posts on IMDB.com, Bettermost.net and other forums so that you could just flip right thru it.  Sometimes you just want to hold something in your hands. A few troll posts might be interestings. Just kidding about that. ;)

The topics you cover sound most interesting.   Your publisher not sending you around the country to promote your book I suppose??   I have not seen it for sale at Barnes and Noble.

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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #27 on: December 27, 2007, 07:41:21 pm »
Well, feel free to review the book, if you like... I believe that one other member of Bettermost has read it. Shakestheground might be able to recommend it (or not).
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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2008, 02:09:23 pm »
Table of Contents from Reading Brokeback Mountain, thanks to MountainMouse

Acknowledgments   
Preface   
1. Arcadia and the Passionate Shepherds of Brokeback Mountain   
   by Henry Alley
2. Proulx's Pastoral: Brokeback Mountain as Sacred Space   
   by Ginger Jones
3. Buried in the Family Plot: The Cost of Pattern Maintenance   
   to Ennis and Jack
   by Jim Stacy
4. Love and Death in an American Story: A "Vulgar" Reading of   
   Brokeback Mountain
   by John Kitterman
5. The "Gay Film" That Wasn't: The Heterosexual Supplement   
   in Brokeback Mountain
   by Lisa Arellano
6. Gay Cowboys Close to Home: Ennis Del Mar on the Q.T.   
   by Hiram Perez
7. "When This Thing Grabs Hold of Us . . .": Spatial Myth,   
   Rhetoric, and Conceptual Blending in Brokeback Mountain
   by Jen E. Boyle
8. From "Nature's Love" to Natural Love: Brokeback Mountain,   
   Universal Identification, and Gay Politics
   by Xinghua Li
9. Broke(n)back Faggots: Hollywood Gives Queers a   
   Hobson's Choice
   by W.C. Harris
10. Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars   
   by Charles Eliot Mehler
11. Whiteness of Another Kind of Love:Letting Sexuality   
   and Race Talk
   by Long T. Bui
12. The Queerness of Country: Brokeback's Soundscape   
   by Noah Tsika
13. Performing "Lonesome Cowboy" and "Jack Nasty": The
   Stars' Negotiation of Norms and Desires
   by Jessica L.W. Carey
14. Lessons Learned on Brokeback Mountain: Expanding the   
   Possibilities of American Manhood
   by John Ibson
15. Love and Silence, Possibility and Penguins   
   by Jim Stacy
Select Bibliography   
About the Contributor   
Index   
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Re: I just bought READING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN from
« Reply #29 on: April 20, 2008, 11:17:54 pm »
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,16062.0.html


earlier on another thread, we discussed a couple of the chapters in this book. I bought it a while back and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.