San Francisco Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness Book Talk
WHEN:
9/29/2016
WHERE:
Intersecting Film, Music, and Queerness Book Talk, San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:
A book talk and clip show by author Jack Curtis Dubowsky. Intersecting Film, Music and Queerness uses musicology and queer theory to uncover meaning and message in canonical American cinema. Taking a broad approach to queerness that questions heteronormative and homonormative patriarchal structures, binary relationships, gender assumptions and anxieties, this book challenges existing interpretations of what is progressive and what is retrogressive in cinema. Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B Main Library 100 Larkin St. For more info: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=1023962101 More about the book: http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137454201 Published by Palgrave MacMillan. Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture https://www.amazon.com/Intersecting-Queerness-Palgrave-Studies-Audio-Visual/dp/1137454202 See Queerest.Library.Ever. http://sfpl.org/hormelat20 for related online exhibits, archives, and resources. Reviews: “A pleasure to read throughout! Dubowsky’s scholarship is meticulous, his critical sense alert and intelligent, and his range of knowledge is marvelous. Plus, he writes with a clear mind and a clean prose. This book will count for scholars of music, LGBTQ studies, American history, and film.” (Mitchell Morris, Professor of Musicology, UCLA, USA) “Jack Curtis Dubowsky’s Intersecting Film Music and Queerness provides a fresh and exciting analysis of cinema and sound, offering fascinating insight into the relationship between soundtracks and the sexuality and gender of the musicians who made them. The book weaves film studies, musicology, and queer theory into a compelling interpretive mesh for academic audiences, while serving up enough biographical tidbits and interesting anecdotes to please even the most hardcore fans and enthusiasts.” (Susan Stryker, Director, Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona, USA)
