Bibliograph

Reading Brokeback Mountain, essays on the story and the film, edited by Jim Stacy

Type

Label

Reading Brokeback Mountain, essays on the story and the film, edited by Jim Stacy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Reading Brokeback Mountain

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

141483379

Responsibility statement

edited by Jim Stacy

Sub title

essays on the story and the film

Summary

"This collection offers 15 essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its film adaptation from a wide variety of perspectives and academic disciplines"--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Arcadia and the passionate shepherds of Brokeback Mountain / by Henry Alley -- Proulx's pastoral : Brokeback Mountain as sacred space / by Ginger Jones -- Buried in the family plot : the cost of pattern maintenance to Ennis and Jack / by Jim Stacy -- Love and death in an American story : a "vulgar" reading of Brokeback Mountain / by John Kitterman -- The "gay film" that wasn't : the heterosexual supplement in Brokeback Mountain / by Lisa Arellano -- Gay cowboys close to home : Ennis Del Mar on the Q.T. / by Hiram Perez -- "When this thing grabs hold of us . . ." : spatial myth, rhetoric, and conceptual blending in Brokeback Mountain / by Jen E. Boyle -- From "nature's love" to natural love : Brokeback Mountain, universal identification, and gay politics / by Xinghua Li -- Broke(n)back faggots : Hollywood gives queers a Hobson's chioce / by W.C. Harris -- Brokeback Mountain at the Oscars / by Charles Eliot Mehler -- Whiteness of another kind of love : letting race and sexuality talk / by Long T. Bui -- The queerness of country : Brokeback's soundscape / by Noah Tsika -- Performing "Lonesome cowboy" and "Jack Nasty" : the stars' negotiation of norms and desires / by Jessica L.W. Carey -- Lessons learned on Brokeback Mountain : expanding the possibilities of American manhood / by John Ibson -- Love and silence, possibility and penguins / by Jim Stacy

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