New queer cinema : the director's cut / B. Ruby Rich.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Before the beginning -- The new queer cinema, expanded version -- Collision, catastrophe, celebration: the relationship of gay/lesbian film festivals to their publics -- What's a good gay film? -- The king of queer : Derek Jarman -- True stories of forbidden love -- Goings and comings, the go fish way -- The watermelon woman: historical fictions, modern desires -- Channeling domestic violence -- The I.K.U. experience: the Shu-Lea Cheang phenomenon -- Jonathan Caouette: what in tarnation? -- Apichatpong Weerasethakul's tropical maladies -- Beyond doom : Gregg Araki's mysterious film -- A walk in the clouds : Julian Hernandez -- Lethal lesbians: the cinematic inscription of murderous desire -- Queering the biopic documentary -- A queer and present danger -- Preface to a history -- Refashioning Mexican screen sexuality : Ripstein, Hermosillo, Leduc -- Gay/lesbian traces -- Mexico in the 1940s : reclaiming a gender pioneer -- Revolution, sexuality, and the paradox of queer film in cuba -- Queering the social landscape -- Ang Lee's lonesome cowboys -- Itty bitty titty committee : free radicals and the feminist carnivalesque -- Nouvelle queer : from morality tales to mortality tales in Ozon, Techine, Collard -- Got milk? : Gus Van Sant's encounter with history.