"For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been writing about queer movies. As a member of the Jump Cut collective and contributor to the Toronto-based gay newspaper the Body Politic, he emerged in the late 1970s as a pioneer in gay fil…
Queer looks: perspectives on lesbian and gay film and video
by White, Patricia, Merck, Mandy, Waugh, Thomas, Mercer, Kobena, Deocampo, Nick, Gever, Martha, Parmar, Pratibha, Greyson, John, Bociurkiw, Marusia, Bordowitz, Gregg, Brooke, Kaucyila, BUTLER, Alison, Carlomusto, Jean, Chin, Daryl, Chua, Lawrence, Crimp, Douglas, Di Stefano, John, Diamond, Sara, Evans, Donna, Finch, Mark, Fung, Richard, Goldsby, Jackie, Hammer, Barbara, Kotz, Liz, Kwietniowski, Richard, Marshall, Stuart, Navarro, Ray, Parkerson, Michelle, Plakhov, Andrei, Rainer, Yvonne, Rich, B. Ruby, Saalfield, Catherine, Speck, Wieland, Sunil, Gupta, Tartaglia, Jerry, Viegener, Matias
A Queer Film Classic: this brilliant 1974 Canadian cinema verité film, set in Montreal's bohemian neighborhood The Main and hailed at its Whitney Museum debut, is a fascinating take on social mores and relationships in the 1970s and a twentysomething photographer's attraction fo…
Montreal Main: a queer film classic
by Waugh, Thomas, Garrison, Jason
fromQueer film classics series
Montreal Main, considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's bohemian neighborhood "The Main" and hailedat its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie film and agreat queer …
"Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's bohemian neighborhood "The Main" and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie…
"In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions--first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill--altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the internet and its cataclysmic cultural and social tech…
A critique and excavation of sexual confession as the key ritual of twenty-first-century moving image culture, from the banal to the forbidden.
