Collected in this volume are three highly acclaimed screenplays from one of today's most provocative writer-directors. With exquisite subtlety, all three films demonstrate Haynes's concerns as a pioneer of the "new queer cinema" who is winning increasing acceptance by the American mainstream.
A knowing and emotionally involving homage to the films of Douglas Sirk, this film is a key text in the canon of American independent cinema.This book offers a detailed and perceptive study of Haynes' film, with each chapter centred on a ...
Mrs. Leacock: I do apologize, Mrs. Whitaker, but candid views are always the best. Cathy: Darling, this is Mrs. Leacock, the lady I told you about, from the Weekly Gazette. Frank: Ah, yes. The fine lady who wants to air all our dirty ...
Dyer, Richard (1990), Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film, London: Routledge. Dyer, Richard (1991), 'Believing in Fairies: The Author and The Homosexual' in Diana Fuss (ed.), Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ...
At first he had kept it covered with a bandage, from which blood-tinged tears had stained a track down into his beard. Then these had dried, and the bandage had come off. The lid, which the arrow had pierced on its way in, was puckered ...
When Micky Bellsong meets Leilani Klonk, a disabled girl, and her stepfather, Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, but when the family disappears, she embarks on an arduous mission to find them.
Story of the Tafoya clan, a Chicano family with a flair for misadventure. The Tafoyas include a physician philosopher, a radical daughter with a degree from Bryn Mawr, a clumsy,...
A young Korean girl and her family find it difficult to learn English and adjust to life in America.
Not Far from Heaven
This book is like the Tardis, larger inside than out, with a range of ideas, characters, and fascinating future settings making it probably the best science fiction novel of the year." —The Guardian For more from Tade Thompson, check out: ...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities.