Derek Jarman has been called the ""godfather"" of the early 1990's cinematic movement now known as ""Queer Cinema."" ""Queer"" rejects labels, challenges fixed ideas of gender and sexual identity and refuses the status of a tolerated minority, and queer imagery dominates Harman's cinema . Yet there has been little attention given to this rich vein in his work. This is the first book to view Jarman's cinema through the analytical prism of ""queer."" Niall Richardson takes up queer theory and its debates, as well as the tension between theory and activism, to apply these issues to Jarman's...

'Critical Readings in Bodybuilding' is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme, and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity.

Introduces students to the critical study of sexualities, explaining and demonstrating how relevant theories can be applied in analyses of contemporary media representations and cultural practices

Since at least the early 1970s, when Claire Johnston observed that despite 'the enormous emphasis placed on woman as spectacle in the cinema ...woman as woman is largely absent', the relationship of cinema to the construction of gender identities and gendered pleasures has been a central concern within Film Studies. Bringing together the political concerns of second-wave feminism and the dizzying developments in theorizing about representation, culture, and society, early work-as exemplified by Johnston's writing-changed radically the nature of Film Studies and the issues which it would...