Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival
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, including the need to adapt to changing environments, the questioning of rigidly traditional male roles and identities, the breakdown and regeneration of the structures of families, the limitations of monogamy, and the stubborn affirmation of romantic love.

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Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival
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, including the need to adapt to changing environments, the questioning of rigidly traditional male roles and identities, the breakdown and regeneration of the structures of families, the limitations of monogamy, and the stubborn affirmation of romantic love.

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Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival

Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival

by Justin Vicari
Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival

Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival

by Justin Vicari

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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, including the need to adapt to changing environments, the questioning of rigidly traditional male roles and identities, the breakdown and regeneration of the structures of families, the limitations of monogamy, and the stubborn affirmation of romantic love.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786461608
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 01/12/2011
Pages: 255
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Justin Vicari is an award-winning poet, essayist and film writer. He lives in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface     
Introduction: Searching for Bob Elkin     

Part 1. Personal Visions
1. Fifteen Minutes of the Future: François Ozon’s A Summer Dress     
2. To Bend Without Breaking: Bisexuality and Adaptation in the Films of André Téchiné     
3. Tentative, Tender ... and Trendy? Gregg Araki’s Teen Trilogy     
4. Rock Star Bisexuality in Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine     
5. For Whom the Bi Tolls: Craig Lucas’ The Dying Gaul and Ozon’s Water Drops on Burning Rocks     

Part 2. Alone and with Others
6. Making the Man: The Bisexual Hero     
7. Illegible Patriarchies: Bisexualizing the Family     
8. Fazes and Mazes: Inside the Triangle     

Part 3. Matters of Love and Death
9. The Schoolboy Crush and Its Ambiguous Object     
10. Turning It On and Off: “Bi for Pay”     
11. Allegories of AIDS     
12. In His Wake: The Strange Power of the Dead Bisexual     
13. At the Limits of Heterosexuality: The Woman’s Viewpoint in Anatomy of Hell     

Conclusion: “It’s All Good”     
Chapter Notes     
Works Cited     
Index     
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