Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon (A Camera Obscura Book) - Softcover

Francis, Marc

 
9781478033080: Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon (A Camera Obscura Book)
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ISBN 10: 1478033088 ISBN 13: 9781478033080
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2026

Synopsis

In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how creative and savvy programmers screened films by the likes of John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Russ Meyer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and a bevy of others in major cities across the United States, forming intertextual constellations in their repertory calendars. These programs allied a dizzying range of sexual and gendered outlaws, including stigmatized practices often overlooked by LGBT-focused queer theory. Curating Deviance reveals how repertory and art cinemas built a coalition of outcasts stigmatized for their taboo desires or identities, rekindling queer utopian imaginaries.

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About the Author

Marc Francis is Manager of Film Programming in Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University and has worked at HBO, Warner Bros, and Paramount.

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Publication date
2026
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1478033088
ISBN 13 
9781478033080
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
304

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