Queer Imaginings by David A Gerstner PAPERBACK 9780814350218

Queer ImaginingsOn Writing and Cinematic Friendship\nAuthor(s): David A. Gerstner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Wayne State University Press, United States\nImprint: Wayne State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814350218, 978-0814350218\nSynopsis\nHow do we identify the \""queer auteur\"" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms \""queer\"" and \""auteur\"" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations, disconcerting ironies and paradoxes, and biographical deceits and ambiguities? In eighteen eloquent chapters, David A. Gerstner traces a history of ideas that spotlight an ever-shifting terrain associated with auteur theory and, in particular, queer-auteur theory. Engaging with the likes of Oscar Wilde, Walter Benjamin, James Baldwin, Jean Louis Baudry, Linda Nochlin, Jane Gallop, Cel Keegan, Luce Irigaray, and other prominent critical thinkers, Gerstner contemplates how the queer auteur in film theory might open us to the work of desire. \.