QUEER FILM BLOGATHON

Yes! It’s time! Who’s ready for some queer film bloggin’? I know I am!

But first, I must acknowledge this BRILLIANT artistic contribution by the lovely Molly. It’s an illustration of Jim and Plato (James Dean and Sal Mineo) from Rebel Without A Cause (1955), with Judy (Natalie Wood) spying on them jealously from behind a wall. The joy this picture brings me is beyond description.

Now! ONTO THE BLOGGING! My own contributions from throughout the month of June are all handily organized under this neat tag here, but just to be extra obnoxious (and because I did work extra hard on them), I will list my film reviews for you here as well.

My Film Reviews

• Different from the Others (1919)
• Salomé (1923)
• Maedchen in Uniform (1931)
• Rope (1948)
• Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
• The Killing of Sister George (1968)
• The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)
• Can’t Stop the Music (1980)
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to your contributions. Just comment below with a link to your post(s), and I will add them to the list. Then check back all day long as the contributions roll in!

VERY IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This blogathon brings together two different discourses, the discourse of film and the discourse of LGBTQ studies. Both of these sectors have their own specific vocabulary, some of which may be unfamiliar to voices coming from the other sector. I will be screening all posts before adding them to the list of contributions, and if anything seems intentionally offensive, I won’t link it. However, it is entirely possible to be offensive without intending to be, especially when one uses language one does not realize is incorrect or hurtful. I’m not saying that readers who are offended by the usage of certain words should not make it known to the specific blogger that they were hurt by what was said; in fact, if you want to take on the role of educator, please go for it. But in the interest of preventing hurt feelings, I just wanted to put this disclaimer here and remind everyone to be respectful and understanding of each other’s backgrounds and experiences. Although, as I said, I do intend to screen the contributions to a degree, this does not mean the views of the contributors necessarily reflect my own; I am not responsible for the content of the linked posts, and it is not my job to mediate any conflicts which may arise from them. Thank you for understanding.
Queer Film Blogathon – OFFICIAL LIST

• Marlene Dietrich: The Last Goddess – Throwing Shade: Homophobia In Riva’s Dietrich Bio? Pt. 1
• She Blogged By Night – GLBT Characters in Classic Hollywood: Part 1; Part 2
• They Had Faces! – The Lavender Lie: Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals of Silent Hollywood
• Nishikata Film Review – Manji (卍, 1964); Kakera: A Piece of Our Life (カケラ, 2009)
• Frost Lord – Eating Out Sloppy Seconds
• In It For The Kills – Gay Subtext in The Legend of Hell House
• Randomaniac – Spotlight on: Gender Performativity in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs
• The Other Side – The Lesbian Vampire: Villain or Victim? Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
• The Hollywood Revue – Young Man With A Horn (1950)
• Film Forager – Sylvia Scarlett (1935); Orlando (1992)
• Wide Screen World – The Children’s Hour; Paris is Burning; La Cage Aux Folles; Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Let’s Not Talk About Movies – Don’t Make a Scene (Queer Blogathon Edition): The Bride of Frankenstein
• Coffee Coffee and More Coffee – The Fish Child
• Krell Laboratories – Garbage In, Garbage Out; Mutatis Mutandis; Love and Undeath; Clarice in the Underworld; More Noise on Silence; Netflix Roulette: Bloody Mallory; Another Mermaid; Crazy for Trying; Interview with a Queer Pornographer; Martyr Complex
• Comet Over Hollywood – Yankee Doodle Dressed in Drag; The Story of Tommy Kirk
• The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World – The Addictively Haunting Persona of Leontine Sagan’s ’31 Proto-Lesbian Masterpiece Maedchen in Uniform
• Magically Real – Beauty with the Beast: Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et La Bête, 1946
• My Unacceptable Body – Kustom Kar Kommandos
• The Defeatist Completist – Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes)
• Marcus’s Movie Life – Desperate Living
• The Movie Projector – Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
• Cinema Fanatic – Oscar Vault Monday: Milk, 2008 (dir. Gus Van Sant)
• Backlots – A Tribute to Judy Garland; Judy Essentials
• The Girl with the White Parasol – Movie Review: Sylvia Scarlett
• Grand Old Movies – Sophisticated Lady: Lilyan Tashman and Sapphic Chic
• Ferdy on Films – Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City/More Tales of the City (TV, 1993/1998); Sebastiane (1976)
• Thrilling Days of Yesteryear – Caged (1950)
• Pussy Goes Grr – Queer and Haunted
• True Classics – He just went gay all of a sudden
• Ida Lupino – Rope (1948)
• Memories of the Future – Boarding School Erotics: “Olivia” and “Mädchen in Uniform”
• Trashfilmaddict – A Few Words About Peter Chatel (1943-1986)
• missemmamm – Top Gay Movies on Netflix Instant Streaming
• Molly-olly-oxen-free – Manticore Monday & Queer Blogathon
• Lost Video Archive – Monster in the Closet; Saigon in Beverly Hills; Tintorera: Tiger Shark
• The Kitty Packard Pictorial – His Way: William Haines
• For Cinephiles by a Cinefille – Where Maurice Fits
• Viv and Larry – The Mysterious Mrs. Danvers: Queer Subtext in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca
• The Projector Has Been Drinking – Watching the Seductives

Posted by Caroline S. on June 27, 2011

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