New queer cinema : the director's cut / B. Ruby Rich.

Based in the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index.

Before the beginning -- The new queer cinema: director's cut -- Collision, catastrophe, celebration: the relationship between gay and lesbian film festivals to their publics -- What's a good gay film? -- The king of queer : Derek Jarman -- True stories of forbidden love -- Goings and comings, the go fish way -- Historical fictions, modern desires: the watermelon woman -- Channeling domestic violence: in the den with Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon -- The I.K.U. experience: the Shu-Lea Cheang phenomenon -- Jonathan Caouette: what in tarnation? -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul's tropical maladies -- Beyond doom : Gregg Araki's mysterious film -- A walk in the clouds : JuliaÌn HernaÌndez -- Lethal lesbians: the cinematic inscription of murderous desire -- Queering the biopic documentary -- A queer and present danger : the death of new queer cinema? -- Preface to a history -- Refashioning Mexican screen sexuality : Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc -- Gay/lesbian traces -- Mexico in the Forties : reclaiming a gender pioneer -- Revolution, sexuality, and the paradox of queer film in Cuba -- Queering the social landscape -- Ang Lee's lonesome cowboys -- Itty bitty titty committee : free radicals and the feminist carnivalesque -- Queer Nouveau : from morality tales to mortality tales in Ozon, TeÌchineÌ, Collard -- Got milk? : Gus Van Sant's encounter with history.