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• Title:Male bisexuality in current cinema : images of growth, rebellion and survival / Justin Vicari.
  
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• Author/Creator:Vicari, Justin, 1968-
  
• Published/Created:Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2011.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN1995.9.B57 V53 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Bisexuality in motion pictures.
  Homosexuality in motion pictures.
  Men in motion pictures.
  
• Description:viii, 247 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:"In recent decades, male bisexuality has become a recurring topic in international cinema, as filmmakers and their works challenge our ideas about sexual freedom and identity. In all of these films, more than a dozen of which are covered here, bisexuality is treated both as an actual practice and a complex metaphor for a number of things"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780786461608 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Preface
  Introduction: searching for Bob Elkin
  Personal visions. Fifteen minutes of the future: Francois Ozon's A summer dress
  To bend without breaking: bisexuality and adaptation in the films of Andre Tichin
  Tentative, tender ... and trendy? Gregg Araki's Teen trilogy
  Rock star bisexuality in Todd Haynes' Velvet goldmine
  For whom the bi tolls: Craig Lucas' The dying Gaul and Ozon's Water drops on burning rocks
  Alone and with others. Making the man: the bisexual hero
  Illegible patriarchies: bisexualizing the family
  Fazes and mazes: inside the triangle
  Matters of love and death. The schoolboy crush and its ambiguous object
  Turning it on and off: "bi for pay"
  Allegories of AIDS
  In his wake: the strange power of the dead bisexual
  At the limits of heterosexuality: the woman's viewpoint in Anatomy of hell
  Conclusion: "it's all good."