Selected LGBTQ Film Festivals
Online Resources
The resources below are great a way to begin researching films, actors, actresses, and the filmmaking process (including LGBTQI films).
- Gay CelluloidReviews, trailers, and other information on over 300 independent LGBTQI films and filmmakers.
- CinemaQueerMovie reviews, interviews, and other material relevant to LGBTQI cinema by Michael Klemm, a writer for Outcome (gay newspaper in Buffalo) and abOUT (gay newspaper in Toronto).
Print Resources
- Bisexual Characters in Film: From Anaïs to ZeeCentral 7th Floor: PN1995.9 .B57 B78 1997
-- Wayne Bryant's review of bisexual representations in film starts with 1914's "A Florida Enchantment" (starring Edith Storey) and surveys movies all the way through to Drew Barrymore in "Poison Ivy" (1992) and other films. - The Celluloid ClosetCentral 7th floor: PN1995.9 .H55 R8 1987
-- Vito Russo's seminal study of gays in the cinema from silents through the 1980s. The documentary film by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman is also available, but currently only in VHS format (Videotape 1494, located at Government Information & Media Services). - New Queer Cinema : A Critical ReaderCentral 7th floor: PN1995.9 .H55 N48 2004
-- 2004 study of queer cinema edited by Michele Aaron. Topics include Todd Haynes, Gregg Araki, "Art Cinema and Murderous Lesbians," "New Black Queer Cinema."
The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema by
The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans(LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of"queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars.The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media thatmoves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chaptersshowcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining filmsthat reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is itrestricted to the medium of film.
Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 0190877995Publication Date: 2021-11-26
