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William R. Handley: "The Brokeback Book"

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Jeff Wrangler:

--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on July 29, 2011, 09:11:22 am ---I have been noodling away on it when I got stuck on my other writing projects. For some odd reason, I can write about Brokeback when my brain is too brokedown to write about any other thing. But my writings are just jottings and notes to be used by someone more worthy.  :P I'm up to about 50 pages!!

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Fiddlesticks!

Just keep jotting and noting when the spirit moves you. Then some day sit down and organize the jots and notes into a coherent plan and go for it!

Front-Ranger:
The Brokeback Book is on its way to me!!

Front-Ranger:
I started reading The Brokeback Book, all set to be disappointed, when suddenly I found it fascinating! I'm currently reading the introduction by William R. Handley that discusses the context of the story (and brings up Wister's The Virginian) and the movie (mentioning many classic Westerns as well as Thelma and Louise  :o). I'm looking forward to a previously unpublished interview with Annie Proulx and several of the chapters, which are all written by different people.

I STILL think another book (or more) needs to be written about the movie, discussing Ang Lee's direction, the screenplay by Diana Osana and Larry McMurtry, and aspects such as the cinematography, the costuming, actors, sets and props, locations, etc.

Front-Ranger:
The interview with Annie Proulx was everything I hoped for and more. Kudos to Michael Silverblatt for his amiability and keen perception! I'm on the last chapter now. The chapters written by Patricia Nell Warren, Judith Halberstam, and Gregory Hinton were interesting (but what a blooper Warren made when she said Jack died at age 43!!), but overall the last half of the book was quite disappointing with way too much psychobabble. Another interesting chapter was "Backs Unbroken: Ang Lee, Forbearance, and the Closet" by Mun-Hou Lo.

I just got really tired of the debate over whether Brokeback Mountain is a gay film and why people don't want to classify it as such.

milomorris:

--- Quote from: Tony-Ranger on August 29, 2011, 12:32:15 pm ---I just got really tired of the debate over whether Brokeback Mountain is a gay film and why people don't want to classify it as such.

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Are saying that people are debating over the subject matter? Or is it a debate about genre?

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