Strongly recommended both for students coming to queer scholarship for the first time, and to those in Media Studies, Film Studies and Cultural Studies interested in how contemporary thinking around sexuality and gender might be explored in a piece of relatively mainstream cinema. * CINEJ Cinema Journal * I can think of no other queer-film scholar to write this book. In Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain, Matthew Tinkcom elegantly, clearly, and adroitly traces signature trajectories of queer theory, then stitches these concepts into traditions of film theory and close analysis. Merging Freud, Foucault, and Sedgwick with Bazin, Buscombe, and Mulvey, Tinkcom demonstrates a generous capacity to speak at once to well-heeled scholars, eager undergraduates, and cinephiles. A true page turner, Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain delights in the complexly queer pleasures that the cinema offers. * David A. Gerstner, Professor of Cinema Studies and co-author of Christophe Honoré: A Critical Introduction, City University of New York, College of Staten Island, USA. * Queer Theory and Brokeback Mountain deftly accomplishes a formidable, vital achievement: unpacking the often opaque tenets of queer theory in the service of illuminating the dynamic and contradictory cultural dialogue sparked by this landmark film. This eloquent, rigorous, and approachable volume places the film within the larger discourses of genre and reception studies while anticipating future priorities for queer media and scholarship. * Jamie Poster, Professor of Film Studies, Irvine Valley College, USA * In this compact volume, Matthew Tinkcom makes the key concepts of queer theory accessible to a new generation. Through its sustained, provocative engagement with Ang Lees well-known film, this book not only introduces readers to current thought about non-normative gender and sexuality, but also demonstrates on every page how queer theory can enable fresh academic inquiry, both within and beyond film studies. * Matt Bell, Associate Professor of English, Bridgewater State University, USA *
