"Recommended! Vicari has amazing insights into bisexuality and how it is expressed on film. His film criticism is both indepth and fascinating"--Examiner.com; "the well-conceived structure, detailed reflections, and lucid writing style of Vicari's study should interest both casu…
"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 a…
"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 a…
"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 a…
"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 a…
"In startling new readings of Breton, Bataille, Cocteau, Artaud, Crevel and others, Justin Vicari examines intersections between surrealism and mental illness, deploying an interdisciplinary approach, including aesthetic theory, radical politics, and psychoanalysis. Of interest,…
The early surrealists attempted to create art directly from the unconscious, but the resulting art often reveals the stamp of its age. It is generally accepted that a certain macho sensibility prevailed within the movement, excluding queer sensibilities and reducing women to obj…
The early surrealists attempted to create art directly from the unconscious, but the resulting art often reveals the stamp of its age. It is generally accepted that a certain macho sensibility prevailed within the movement, excluding queer sensibilities and reducing women to obj…
"In startling new readings of Breton, Bataille, Cocteau, Artaud, Crevel and others, Justin Vicari examines intersections between surrealism and mental illness, deploying an interdisciplinary approach, including aesthetic theory, radical politics, and psychoanalysis. Of interest,…