Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar materialism. The decadents, a diverse movement of writers, were the climax and exhaustion of this romantic tradition. In their art, they enacted the romance of faith as a protest against the dreariness of modern life. Ellis Hanson teases out two strands--eroticism and aestheticism--that rendered the decadent interest in Catholicism extraordinary. More than any other literary movement, the decadents explored the powerful historical relationship...
Romantic writers had found in Christianity a poetic cult of the imagination, an assertion of the spiritual quality of beauty in an age of vulgar ma...
This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the politics of representation has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to Out Takes employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship.
The essays examine a wide array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly...
This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. Whi...
This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the politics of representation has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to Out Takes employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship.
The essays examine a wide array of films, including Calamity Jane, Rear Window, The Hunger, Heavenly...
This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. Whi...
