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Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon

Curating Deviance: Programming the Queer Film Canon

Hardcover

Series: Camera Obscura Book

Film StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesSexuality

ISBN10: 1478029633
ISBN13: 9781478029632
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Feb 17 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.58
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how creative and savvy programmers screened films by the likes of John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Russ Meyer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and a bevy of others in major cities across the United States, forming intertextual constellations in their repertory calendars. These programs allied a dizzying range of sexual and gendered outlaws, including stigmatized practices often overlooked by LGBT-focused queer theory. Curating Deviance reveals how repertory and art cinemas built a coalition of outcasts stigmatized for their taboo desires or identities, rekindling queer utopian imaginaries.

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