Flaming Classics by Alexander Doty

Flaming Classics by Alexander Doty

This lively, opinionated, and playful look at the movies is a must-read for film buffs, and for anyone interested in gender, sexuality, and popular culture. One thing's for sure. After reading Flaming Classics you'll know you're definitely not in Kansas anymore.

"What makes Flaming Classics so refreshing is not so much its innovative angle as its conversational edgeInstead of the autoerotic jargon that all too often excites film critics while leaving their audiences unsatisfied, Doty's intelligent, accessible analyses convert his discourse into a pleasurable intercourse between writers and readers of both academic and pop-culture texts." -- RainTaxi
"...peeks into new spaces with a sharp, funny eye to the tornado that continues to rage between marginalized queer cultures and mainstream cinema." -- Rain Taxi
"Flaming Classics by Alexander Doty turns up the temperature on gay currents in cinema from Caligari to Psycho" -Flaunt."
"This year's many books that probe the sexual nature of film, film stars and filmmakers could stock a mini-library. Part of the entertaining group is FlamingClassics by Alexander Doty, who argues that "The Wizard of Oz" is a lesbian fantasy -- a notion that many "friends of Dorothy" might passionately debate." -- Publishers Weekly
"...Doty often takes a fresh approach to overexamined works." -- Library Journal

Alexander M. Doty+ liked to joke that he was born in a trunk at the Princess Theatre in Pocatello, Idaho. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1954, his family finally claimed west Texas as home. He received his BA from the University of Texas-El Paso (or Harvard on the Border as it is known on bumper stickers), and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He held academic positions at The American University of Cairo, at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, and, from 2007 until his untimely death in 2012, at Indiana University, in Bloomington, where he held a joint-appointment in the departments of Gender Studies and Communication and Culture, and served on the board of the famous Kinsey Institute. His books, Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture (Minnesota, 1993) and Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon (Routledge, 2000) changed the face of the fields and remain influential to this day. As does his co-edited volume (with Corey Creekmur), Out in Culture: Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Duke, 1995), the first volume of its kind. He was the author of a host of articles and an editor for two special issues of Camera Obscura: Fabulous! Divas I and II. When, in 1995, Patricia Clare Ingham left California for her first academic job, she was lucky enough to land on the faculty with Alex Doty at Lehigh University. With an MA and PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, she joined the faculty of English at Lehigh, where she taught medieval literature and language, critical theory, Gender Studies, and whined about winter. She is the author of Sovereign Fantasies: Arthurian Romance and the Making of Britain (Pennsylvania, 2001), co-editor (with Michelle Warren) of Postcolonial Moves Medieval Through Modern (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), and currently serves as co-editor of the award-winning journal, Exemplaria. She has published a number of articles on medieval romance, psychoanalysis, and Chaucer, and has a just completed a book, tentatively titled, Newfangled Traditions: Encounters with Newness and Medieval Culture (forthcoming, Pennsylvania). She currently teaches English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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ISBN 13	9780415923453
ISBN 10	041592345X
Title	Flaming Classics
Author	Alexander Doty
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2000-05-08
Number of pages	256
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