The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas
Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
ISBN 9780773530690
In the Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas, Thomas Waugh discusses queer Canadian film and video, providing an account of its context, makers, and audience. Part One of the book features thematic essays that identify prominent connections between films and maps significant movements in the industry. Part Two: Movers and Shakers includes an alphabetical list of Canadian filmmakers along with a short biography. Waugh explores the intersections of sexual and national identities as represented in visual culture.
Contents:
Illustrations;
Foreword by Bruce LaBruce;
Acknowledgments;
Reader's Guide and Acronyms;
How to Queer Sexualities, Nations, and Cinemas, or The Romance (and Paradoxes) of Transgression in Canada;
Monkey on the Back: Canadian Cinema, Conflict Masculinities, and Queer Silences in Canada's Cold War;
Sexual Revolution, Canadian Cinema, and Other Queer Paradoxes;
Fairy Tales of Two Cities, or Queer Nation(s)/Urban Cinema(s);
Passages: Going to Town, Coming of Age;
Forbidden Love, or Queering the National Film Board of Canada;
Boys and the Beast;
Sex, Money and Sobriety;
Anti-Retroviral: "A Test of Who We Are";
Conclusion: Of Bodies, Shame, and Desire;
Moves and Shakers;
Notes;
Bibliography;
Index.
ITEM 2006.201 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Neighbours – Norman McLaren
Howard – Donald Haldane
Monkey on the Back – Julian Biggs
Ladies and Gentlemen.... Mr. Leonard Cohen – Donald Brittain and Don Owen
Merry-Go-Round – Tanya Ballantyne Tree
Don't Let the Angels Fall – George Kaczender
Jusqu'au coeur – Jean-Pierre Lefebvre
Prolong – Robin Spry
Wow! – Claude Jutra
À tout prendre – Claude Jutra
Winter Kept Us Warm – David Secter
Il était une fois dans l'Est – André Brassard
Outrageous – Richard Benner
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing – Patricia Rozema
When Night is Falling – Patricia Rozema
A Musician in the Family – Gudrun Parker
Cornet At Night – Stanley Jackson
One's a Heifer – Anne Wheeler
For the Record – Claude Jutra
Dreamspeaker – Anne Cameron
Lilies – John Greyson
Auto Biography – Dennis Day
Amherst – James MacSwain
The Hanging Garden – Thom Fitzgerald
Full Blast – Rodrigue Jean
The Pinco Triangle – Chris Patrick Crowe and Ruthe Whiston
Emporte-moi – Léa Pool
August and July – Murray Markowitz
Passiflora – Fernand Bélanger and Dagmar Teufel
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives – Lynn Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman
Stolen Moments – Margaret Wescott
Exposure – Michelle Mohabeer
Les boys – Louisa Saïa
Golden Gloves – Gilles Groulx
La Bête lumineuse – Pierre Perrault
The Making of Monsters – John Greyson
Men with Brooms – Paul Gross
Bubbles Galore – Cynthia Roberts
No Skin Off My Ass – Bruce LaBruce
Chinese Characters – Richard Fung
Urinal – John Greyson
Ten Cents a Dance – Midi Onodera
In Black and White – Michael McGarry
The ADS Epidemic – John Greyson
Zero Patience – John Greyson
Fig Trees – John Greyson
Steam Clean – Richard Fung
Letters from Home – Mike Hoolboom
Positiv – Mike Hoolboom
Sadomasochism – Deanna Bowen
Yapping Out Loud: Contagious Thoughts from an Unrepentant Whore – Mirha-Soleil Ross
Where Lies the Homo? – Jean-François Monette
We're Talking Vulva – Shawna Dempsey and Tracy Traeger
Fuck Friends – Stanlé Lubrik
Un zoo la nuit (Night Zoo) – Jean-Claude Lauzon
Hey Happy! – Noam Gonick
Better than Chocolate – Anne Wheeler
I Know a Place – Roy Mitchell
Labyris Rising – Margaret Moores
Company of Strangers – Cynthia Scott
Solo – Atif Siddiqi
Father and Son – Colin Browne
Le fil cassé (The Broken Thread) – Michael Langlois
Quand l'amour est gai – Laurent Gagliardi
Lettre à Tom – Paul Crépeau
Anatomy of Desire – Jean-Francois Monette and Peter Tyler Boullata
Multiple Choices – Alison Burns
Corral – Colin Low
None but the Lonely – Fergus McDonnell
Is It a Woman's World – Donald Haldane
Feeling of Rejection – Robert Anderson
Woman Alone – Julian Biggs
The Street – Fergus McDonnell
A Chairy Tale – Norman McLaren
Narcissus – Norman McLaren
The Cage – Fergus McDonnell
Skin Flick/Skin Gang – Bruce LaBruce
rollercoaster – Scott Smith
No Sad Songs – Nik Sheehan
The Last Supper – Cynthia Roberts
The Perfect Son – Leonard Farlinger
The Event – Thom Fitzgerald
Fighting Chance – Richard Fung
Sea in the Blood – Richard Fung
Frank's Cock – Mike Hoolboom
I'm a Voyeur – Colin Campbell
60 Unit Bruise – Paul Wong
Fat Chance – Anne Golden
School Fag – Richard Fung and Tim McCaskell
Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth – David Akin
In the Flesh – Gordon McLennan