{"product_id":"queer-theory-and-brokeback-mountain-9781501318825","title":"Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQueer Theory and Brokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e examines queer theory as it has emerged in the past three decades and discusses how \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e can be understood through the terms of this field of scholarship and activism. Organized into two parts, in the first half the author discusses key canonical texts within queer theory, including the work of writers as Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. He provides an historical account of the questions these scholars have posed to our understanding of sexualities-both normative and non-normative-in the historical past and in contemporary life, as well as a discussion of the theories of sexuality and gender offered by these scholars as these phenomena shape the experiences of men and women in the genital, bodily, erotic, discursive, and cultural dimensions.\u003cbr\u003eThe second part examines Ang Lee's 2005 feature film, \u003ci\u003eBrokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e, in order to understand the claims and insights of queer theory. Tracing the film's adaptation by screenwriter Larry McMurtry of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story of the same title, this portion of the book examines the film's narrative about two working-class men in the rural mid-20th-century U.S. and the meanings of the sexual and emotional bond between the pair that develops over the course of two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Tinkcom\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Communication, Culture and Technology and Affiliate Faculty of English at Georgetown University, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWorking Like a Homosexual: Camp: Capital, Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrey Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eKey Frames: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies \u003c\/i\u003eas well as articles that have appeared in \u003ci\u003eCinema Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouth Atlantic Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e and collections from Duke University Press and the British Film Institute. He has served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar and Director of the Program in American Studies.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50853595087122,"sku":"9781501318825","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa477fdc-c5bf-4d83-a7a9-3aa3da75b0af.jpg?v=1737452192","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/queer-theory-and-brokeback-mountain-9781501318825","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}