ARTS:

 

CINEMA

                        Includes some television references

 

Abeel, Erica.

                        “Toronto Torrent: Gay Gems Stand Out in Annual Film Frenzy.”

                        Film Journal International 108(11) (November 2005): 44+  (2 pages; 1607 words)

                                                Ref.: CPI.Q, the expanded title in which notes 2005 Toronto

International Film Festival.

 

Al-Solaylee, Kamal.

                        “Rethinking the Global ‘Gay Gaze’: This Year’s Inside Out Festival in Toronto

                        Brings Together Filmmakers from across the World Struggling to Reflect a

                        Community that Means Many Things to Many People.”  Globe & Mail [Toronto]

                        May 18, 2004, p. R3  (1394 words)

                                                Ref.: CPI.Q index.

 

Al-Solaylee, Kamal.

                        “A Touch Too Pink? Some Members of Canada’s Ismaili Community Are

                        Seeing Red over the Gay-themed Film ‘Touch of Pink’.  Globe & Mail [Toronto]

                        July 24, 2004, p. R5  (977 words)

                                                Ian Iqbal Rashid’s film is listed in VIDEOS section of this list.

 

Austin-Smith, Brenda.

                        “ ‘Gender is Irrelevant’ : ‘I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing’ as Women’s

                        Cinema.”  In Canada’s Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films,

                        pp. 209-233. Edited by Eugene P. Walz. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

 

Austin-Smith, Brenda.

                        “Positive Images of Gays & Lesbians.”Canadian Dimension [Winnipeg] 25(5)

                        (July/Aug. 1991): 32.

                                                Counterparts Film Festival.

 

Bailey, Cameron. 

            “Richard Fung.” Now [Toronto] 21 (32)Apr. 11-17, 2002): 95 (photo: p.94)

                                    Includes review of essay collection on Fung’s work, Like Mangoes in

                                    July.

 

Balser, Michael, 1952-

                        Positive Practices.  Editors: Judith Doyle, Marc Christian Tremblay, Scott

                        Treleaven.  Toronto: Second Decade: Reading Pictures, 1995.

                        (50 p.; ISBN 1896356095)

                                                Homosexuality and AIDS in motion pictures.  Degree of relevance

                                                to this bibliography not known.

 

Bociurkiw, Marusia.

                        “It’s a Queer World after All: An Inside Look at the International Lesbian and Gay

                        Film Festival Circuit.”  Fuse Magazine 15(4) (Spring 1992): 12-17.

 

Bruce, Jean.

                        “Querying or ‘Queering’ the Nation: The Lesbian Postmodern and Canadian

                        Women’s Cinema.”  Canadian Journal of Film Studies 5(2) (Fall 1996): 35-50.

 

Burgess, Marilyn.

                        Proudly She Marches: Wartime Propaganda and the Lesbian Spectator.”

                        Cinéaction, no. 23 (Winter 1990/1991): [22]-27.

                                                Proudly She Marches, a 1940 wartime recruitment film of National Film

                                                Board of Canada, directed by Jane Marsh.

 

“Canadian Gay Films Breaking Boldly from Past Bonds.”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],

                        September 12, 1997, p. C3.

 

Castiel, Elie.

                        “Charlie Boudreau: canaliser le niveau de pensée des spectateurs.”

                        Séquences, no. 221, sept.-oct. 2002, p. 19.

                                                “Entretien avec la directrice du festival Image et nation gaie et

                                                lesbienne de Montréal sur les quinze ans d’existence de ce

                                                festival” – Repère résumé.

 

Castiel, Elie.

            “Image et nation: festival international de cinéma gai et lesbien de Montréal:

            variations sur un même thème.”  Séquences [Montréal] 211 (janv.-févr. 2001):

            26-27.

                                                “Bilan de l’édition 2000 de ce festival” –Repère résumé.

 

Castiel, Elie.

                        “Image et nation gaie et lesbienne [de Montréal]: fictions amoureuses.”

                        Séquences [Montréal] 188 (janv.-févr. 1997): 13-14.

                                                “Critique de films présentés lors de ce festival tenu en 1996” – Repère

résumé.

 

Castiel, Elie.

                        “Image et nation gaie et lesbienne: une programmation éclectique.”

                        Séquences [Montréal] 200 (janv.-févr. 1999): 9.

                                                “Critique de films présentés lors de ce festival tenu à Montréal en 1998”—

                                                Repère résumé.

 

Castiel, Elie, et Larue, Johanne.

                        “Image et nation [gaie et lesbienne de Montréal].”  Séquences [Montréal] 169

                        (févr. 1994): 6-8.

                                                “Bilan de ce festival [de cinéma] tenu en 1993; critique de films

                                                présentés” – Repère résumé.

 

Castiel, Elie, et Ranger, Pierre.

                        “12e Festival Image et nation gaie et lesbienne [de Montréal].”

                        Séquences [Montréal] 206 (janv.-févr. 2000): 23-24.

                                                “Critique de films et de courts métrages présentés lors de ce festival tenu

                                                à Montréal en 1999” – Repère résumé.

 

Christianson, Joseph.

                        “Closet Drama: The Sound and the Flurry Surrounding Winnipeg’s International

                        Festival of Gay and Lesbian Films [‘Counterparts’].”  Border Crossings 6(3)

                        (Summer 1987): 27-28.

 

“Colour This TV Travel Show Pink: New Vancouver-based Show Explores Gay

                        Friendly Cities and Little-known Hideaways for Dykes Who Like to Ride Bikes,

                        Downtown Drag Queens and Bull-Riding Cowgirls.”  Globe and Mail

                        [Toronto ed.], February 5, 2005, pagination not known.

                                                Concerning “Pink Planet” show, hosted by Bill Mantas.

 

Cuthbert, Pamela.

                        “Deepa Mehta’s Trial by Fire.”  Take One 5(14) (Winter 1997): 28-31.

                                                Fire is listed in the VIDEOS section of this bibliography.

 

Dickinson, Peter, 1968-

                        Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film. 

                        Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007.

                        (280 p.; ISBN 0802044751)

                                                Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33271510, which provides titles

                                                for seven sections of the work. Examples are: “4. Critically Queenie, or

                                                trans-figuring the prison-house of gender: Fortune and men’s eyes and

                                                after,” “5. Space, time and auteurity, and the queer male body: policing

                                                the image in the film adaptations of Robert Lepage,” and “6. Ghosts in

                                                and out of the machine: sighting/citing lesbianism in Susan Swan’s

                                                The wives of Bath and Lea Pool’s Lost and delirious.”

 

Dobinson, Cheryl, and Young, Kevin.

            “Popular Cinema and Lesbian Interpretive Strategies.”  Journal of Homosexuality

                        40(2) (2000): 97-122.

 

D’Souza, Kevin.

                        “Burning Down the House [The Fire I’ve Become: Queer Canadian Film

& Video Festival].”  MIX: The Magazine of Artist-Run Culture 21(4)

(Spring 1996): 34-35.

 

Eichhorn, Paul.

                        “Industry [‘Inside Out: The Lesbian & Gay Film + Video Festival,’ Toronto].

                        Take One [Toronto] 6(19) (Spring 1998:) 47 (or 48?)  (798 words).

                                                Difference in page numbering in secondary sources.  Not seen.

                                                Passing mention of filmmakers Richard Fung, John Greyson, Mike

Hoolboom, Bruce LaBruce, Jason Romilly, and Reena Katz.

 

Everett-Green, Robert.

   “Prince of Homosexuals: The Bravado of Bruce LaBruce Hides a More Private

   Man.  The Porno King of the Gay Set Riding High.”  Globe and Mail [ Toronto]

   June 19, 1998, n.p. 

                           Ref.: CPI.Q electronic index, from which full text of article was available

                           as of  November 11, 2000.

 

“Famous Players Drops Same-sex Advertisements: Movie Chain Decides on New

   Policy after Receiving Threatening Calls.”  Globe and Mail [Toronto ed.],

   February 19, 2005, p. A10.

 

Filipenko, Cindy.

     “Calling the Shots.”  Herizons 10(4) (Fall 1996): 16-19  (1722 words).

                             About Aerlyn Weissman, film director, who has made Fiction and Other

                           Truths and Forbidden Love, e.g., which are listed in the VIDEO section of

                           this list.

 

“Filmfest’s Raunchy Fare Criticized on All Sides.”  Globe and Mail [Metro ed.],

     June 24, 1995, p. C4.

                             About Calgary’s gay film festival.

 

Fischer, Barbara; Horrigan, Bill; and Greyson, John.

                        Fictional Documents: Gay Culture and the Media: A Survey of Film and Video

                        by John Greyson.  Toronto: The Power Plant, 1989.

                                                Catalogue of exhibition held at The Power Plant,

                                                May 5 to June 18, 1989.

                                                Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 19847734.

 

Fithern, David L.

     “Gay Pornography as Cultural Object: Homosexual Desire and the Transmission of

     Dominant Ideology.”  MA thesis, Concordia University, 1996.

     (167 p.)

                             “Investigates through the use of structural analysis scenes from four gay

                             pornographic films…” – abstract from Canadian Research Index.

 

Fung, Richard.

   “Historical Revisions: Sex, Gender and the Past [Swoon; Gerda; Legal Memory:

   Films at the Toronto Festival of Festivals, September 10-20, 1992].”

   Fuse Magazine [ Toronto] 16(2) (Winter 1992/3): 38-39.

 

Fung, Richard.

                        “Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn.” 

                        In How Do I Look?: Queer Film and Video, pp. 145-168.  Edited by

                        Bad Object Choices. Seattle, WA: Bay Press, 1991.

Degree of relevance to this list unknown.  Many of Fung’s works

are listed in the VIDEOS/FILMS section of this bibliography.

 

“Gay and Lesbian Issues [Mediography].”  Visual Media [ Toronto] 9(4)

(Mar./Apr. 1997): 12-20  (2994 words).

 

Gender Boundaries, Border Crossings: A Screening of Artists’ Video and Film

            by Women that Explores Sexuality in its Multiplicity.  Curated by Lynne

            Jenkins.  Ed Video Media Arts Centre (Guelph, Ont.)  [S.l.: s.n.], 1994.

                                    “[I]ncludes work by Marusia Bociurkiw, Neesha Dosanjh, Cheryl Dunye,

                                                Mona Hatoum, Michelle Mohabeer, Shani Mootoo” –AMICUS catalogue.

 

Gever, Martha; Parmar, Pratibha; and Greyson, John.

   Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video.  Toronto:

   Between the Lines, 1993.

   (413 p.; ISBN 092128473X; 0921284721)

                           Published also: New York: Routledge, 1993.

                           Reviews: Border Crossings 13(3) (Summer 1994): 58-59;

                           Fuse Magazine 17(3) (Spring 1994): 34-35.

 

Goyette, Louis.

   “Les documentaires du 8e Festival Image & nation gaie et lesbienne [de Montréal]:

   style conservateur/diversité des sujets.”  Séquences [Montréal] 182 (janv.-févr.

   1996): 16-19.

                           “Critique de documentaires présentés lors de ce festival de cinéma tenu

                           à Montréal en 1995…” – Repère résumé.

 

Grégoire, Pierre.

   “Visions ‘gaies’ d’aujourd’hui.”  Spirale 121 (févr. 1993): 13.

                           “Critique des films présentés dans la section ‘Cinéma/vidéo gai et

                           lesbienne,’ dans le cadre du Festival international du nouveau cinéma et de

                           la vidéo de Montréal, en octobre 1992” – Repère résumé.

 

Greyson, John, 1960-

   Urinal and Other Stories.  Toronto: Art Metropole and The Power Plant, 1993.

   (302 p.; ISBN 0920956335)

 

Hamilton Hart, Jennifer A.

                        “Sexuality and Popular Culture: Conflict and Queer-ies surrounding Lesbian

                        ‘Representation’.”  M.A. thesis, Acadia University, 2007.

               (97 leaves)     

                                                Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33904022, for microfiche format,

                                                to which are assigned descriptors Lesbians in mass media and

                                                Homosexuality on television.

 

Hays, Matthew, 1965-

                        The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers.

                        Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, c2007.

                        (383 p.; ISBN 9781551522203)

                                                Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 33348890.

Some inclusions: Patricia Rozema, Lynne Fernie, Aerlyn Weissman, John

Greyson, Bruce LaBruce, Robert Lepage, David Secter.

 

“Homosexualité [une médiographie].”  Visual Media [Toronto] 9(4)

 (Mar./Apr. 1997): 30-31.

 

Hoolboom, Mike.

   Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada.  Toronto: Gutter Press, 1997.

   (181 p.; ISBN 1896356109)

                           Broader than scope of this bibliography.  “Fifteen of Canada’s most

       renegade filmmakers,” including Wrik Mead, who makes “gay

psychodramas”—Gutter Press website, January 05, 2001.

 

Howard,  Cori.

“From Lesbian to Queer: ‘Out on Screen,’ Gay and Lesbian Film Festival

[Vancouver].”  Kinesis, May 1995, p. 15.

 

Image & Nation: festival international de cinéma et de video gaie et lesbienne.

                        Montréal: Diffusions gaie et lesbienne du Québec (DGLQ)

                                    Annual; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives holdings: 1991 (no. 4–)

 

Ingram, Gordon B.

   “Sex Migrants: Paul Wong’s Video Geographies of Erotic & Cultural Displacement

   in Pacific Canada.  Video as Geography: Mapping West Coast Queerscapes.”

   Fuse Magazine 20(1) (Winter 1997): 17-26.

                           Descriptors applied by indexer: Asian Canadians; video art; British

                           Columbia history; homosexuals.

 

“Isaac Julien’s Children: Black Queer Cinema after Looking for Langston.”

            Fuse Magazine 24(2) (July 2001): 10-17.

                           One of named people is Dana Inkster.

 

Jaffer, Fatima.

   Fire Leaves Myths in Ashes: Lesbians on Screen at the Vancouver International

   Film Festival.”  Kinesis, November 1996, pp. 15, 20.

 

Johnston, Dawn Elizabeth Belle.

                        “Television outside the Box: The Case of PrideVision TV.”  Ph.D. dissertation,

                        University of Calgary, 2005.

                        (259 p.; ISBN 97804940386810)

                                                “…Canada’s PrideVision TV has become the world’s first gay, lesbian,

                                                bisexual and transgender television station to broadcast around the clock,

                                                365 days a year….[It is] a big-budget, corporately sponsored premium

                                                cable channel….[This dissertation] explores the ways in which Canadian

                                                queer activists are re-imagining social activism by using niche-market

                                                television” [by means of a] “case study of Toronto-based PrideVision

                                                TV” – from abstract, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,

                                                ProQuest document ID 813768371; Publication no. AAT NQ94388

 

Jump Cut.

   SEE entry at Steven, Peter, ed., in this section.

 

LaBruce, Bruce.

            Bruce LaBruce: Ride, Queer, Ride!  Edited by Noam Gonick. 

            Winnipeg, Man.: Plug In Gallery, [1999?].

            (254 p.; ISBN 0921381123)

                           Selected filmography, p. 254.

 

Lacey, Liam.

                        “Mambo 101 for Filmmakers: Just Going for the Ethnic Laughs Won’t

                        Replicate the Success of a Canadian Hit Like Mambo Italiano….”

                        Globe & Mail [Toronto] September 18, 2003, p. R3  (1234 words)

Article focussing primarily on the Montreal gay ethnic comedy

film “Mambo Italiano” and on Steve Galluccio.

 

Larue, Johanne.

   “Image et nation gaie et lesbienne [de Montréal].”  Séquences [Montréal] 176

   (janv.-févr. 1995): 8-11.

                           “Bilan de ce festival de cinéma tenu en novembre 1994;  critique de

                           quelques films; entrevue avec…Laurent Gagliardi sur son film

documentaire, Quand l’amour est gai” – Repère résumé.

 

Lavoie, André.

   “Images, ville et vie en rose.”  Ciné bulles 12(2)(févr.-mars 1993): 23-26.

                           “Critique de films présentés lors du festival Image et nation gaie et

                           lesbienne de Montréal tenu en 1992; bilan de ce festival” – Repère résumé.

 

Lee, Helen, and Sakamoto, Kerri, eds.

Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung. <Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2002.

(142 p.; ISBN 1894663225)

                           Extensive bibliography of works by and about Fung: pp. 134-137.

 

Longfellow, Brenda.

   “Eccentric Subjects: Feminist Film Theory and Its Others.”  Ph.D. dissertation,

   York University, 1993.

   (283 p.)

                           “This thesis was written against the historical background of the

accelerated debates and profound critiques launched by women of colour

and lesbians concerning the heterosexism and ethnocentrism of much of

feminist theory….The issue of writing history within the context of

feminist film is addressed specifically as it has informed the production of

my films: Our Marilyn and Gerda” – abstract from Canadian Research

 Index.

 

Lord, Jeffrey C.

   “The Universe of Gay Video Pornography: ‘The Utterly Confused Category’.”

   MA thesis, Concordia University, 1996.

   (234 p.)

                           “A discursive and theoretical analysis of the gay video porn universe” –

                           from Canadian Research Index.

 

MacDonald, Gayle.

                        “Prom Queen Offices Trashed: Producers at Tapestry Pictures Fear the Vandalism

                        Is Linked to Its TV Movie about a Gay Teenager Who Won the Right to Bring

                        His Partner to a Catholic School Dance.”  Globe & Mail [Toronto], May 27, 2004

                        p. R1.

                                                Ref.: CPI.Q index.

 

Making Video “In” : The Contested Ground of Alternative Video on the West Coast.

                        Edited by Jennifer Abbott.  BC: Video In Studios, c2000.

                        (199 p.; ISBN 1551520222)

                                                Ref.: N. Richards communication; compiler has not seen.

                                                AMICUS catalogue record no. 14060606

 

Margot, Francis.

   “‘The Inexplicable Presence of the Thing[s] Not Named’: Dirty Laundry, the

   Railway and Constructing the Nation.”  Canadian Journal of Film Studies

   10(1) (Spring 2001): [48]-69.

                           Concerning Richard Fung’s 1997 film, Dirty Laundry.

 

Marks, Laura U.

   “ ‘Nice Gun You Got There’.”  Parachute 66 (avril-juin 1992): 27-32.

                           “Analyse des enjeux de masculinité et de sexualité dans les vidéos et

                           les films du canadien John Greyson” – Repère résumé.

 

Ménard, Julie.

                        “Le cinéma lesbien: l’émergence d’une prise de parole.”  Québec français,

                        no. 124, hiver 2001-2002, pp. 43-45.

                                                “Regard sur la spécificité du cinéma lesbien illustrée par les films

                                                suivants: ‘Anne Trister’ de Léa Pool, ‘Quand tombe la nuit’ de

                                                Patricia Rozema et ‘Meilleur que le chocolat’ de Anne Wheeler”

                                    -- Repère résumé.

 

Ménard, Julie, 1976-

                        “La representation de la réalité lesbienne au cinéma à partir d’un univers

                        symbolique subjectif. ”  M.A. thesis, Université de Sherbrooke, 2002.

                                                Ref. : AMICUS catalogue record no. 28584549 (record for two-

                                                microfiche copy), which notes, from the thesis abstract, that “[l]’approche

méthodologique choisie…est l’analyse de contenu.  Le corpus se compose

de trois films canadiens dont l’intrigue porte sur le thème de

l’homosexualité féminine : ‘Anne Trister’ (Léa Pool, 1986), ‘Quand tombe

la nuit’         (Patricia Rozema, 1995) et ‘Meilleur que le chocolat’ (Anne

Wheeler, 1999).”

 

Mendenhall, Julia A.

                        “Genre Pleasures : Restructuring Narrative Thresholds and the Coming Out of

                        the Northern American (English-Canadian and United States) Lesbian Romance

                        Film.”  Ph.D. dissertation, Temple University (USA), 2007.

                        (338 p.; ISBN 9780549075011)

                                                “Previous scholarship asserts that the genre merely inserts two women

                                                into the oppressive Hollywood romance narrative….I argue that the genre

                                                …appropriates and restructures the conventional Hollywood romance….

                                                I delineate the genre through…analyses of its three foundational films,

                                                Donna Deitch’s ‘Desert Hearts’ (1986), Patricia Rozema’s ‘I’ve Heard the

                                                Mermaids Singing’ (1987), and Rose Troche’s ‘Go Fish’ (1994)….” –

                                                from abstract, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest document ID

                                                1379547461; Publication no. AAT 3268178.

 

Metcalfe, Robin.

            “Boîte noire: les vidéos de Steve Reinke.”  Parachute 100

            (oct.-nov.-déc. 2000): 87-98.

                                    “Analyse du travail de ce vidéaste [ontarien]” –Repère résumé.

 

Moffat, Alain-Napoléon.

            À tout prendre de Claude Jutras: une rhétorique de l’homosexualité.     

            Montréal: Cinémathèque québécoise : Association québécoise des

            études cinématographiques, 1991.

   (11 p.)

 

Mohabeer, Michelle.

   “The Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival of Toronto: The Euclid

   Theatre and Cinecycle, May 6-16, 1993.”  Fuse Magazine 16 (5/6)

   (Summer 1993): 57-59.

                           See entry at Spires, Randi, in this section, for part 2 of article.

 

Morgan, Jason.

                        “ ‘Perversion Chic’ Cinema and (Queer) Nationalism in English Canada.”

                        In Canadian Cultural Poesis: Essays on Canadian Culture, pp. 211-225.

                        Edited by Garry Sherbert, Annie Gérin, and Sheila Petty.  Waterloo, ON:

                        Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

 

Nadeau, Chantal.

   “Sexualité et espace public: visibilité lesbienne dans le cinéma récent.”

   Sociologie et sociétés 29(1) (printemps 1997): 113-127.

                           “Etude des enjeux culturels et politiques de la représentation de

                           l’identité lesbienne dans l’espace public hétérosexuel; analyse [d’un

                           film français et de] Quand tombe la nuit [de Patricia Rozema, canadienne]

                           qui présentent des personnages homosexuels” – Repère résumé.

 

Nolen, Stephanie.

   “Gay, Lesbian Film Boom Lets Festival Pick and Choose [Inside Out: The Lesbian

   and Gay Film + Video Festival, Toronto]  Globe and Mail, May 20, 1999, n.p.

                           Ref.: CPI.Q electronic index provided full text of article as of Nov.10/00.

 

Onodera, Midi.

                        “Midi Onodera: Interview with Helen Lee.”  Border/Lines [Toronto] 32

 (1994): 14-18.

                                                Onodera is a Toronto-based filmmaker.

See VIDEOS/FILMS section for some of her works.

 

Onodera, Midi.

   “Trying to Film without Compromise: Interview with Midi Onodera.”

   Kinesis, October 1995, pp. 17, 20.

                           By Laiwan?  Onodera is a film director.  See, e.g.,  Skin Deep, listed

                           in VIDEOS section.

 

“Open Letter and Response to Mr François Macerola [NFB Documentaries on Gays].”

   Cinema Canada 141 (May 1987): 4, 35.

 

Paterson, Andrew J.

   “Inside Out/Outside In?: Ruminations on Media Art Festivals, Arts Funding, Video

   Art, AIDS, Queerness and Community.”  Fuse Magazine 21(2) (Spring 1998):

   11-16.

                           Toronto’s Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Film & Video Festival.

 

Pearson, Wendy Gay.

                        “Not in the Hardware Aisle, Please: Same-sex Marriage, Anti-gay Activism and

                        ‘My Fabulous Gay Wedding’.”  Ethnologies 28(2) (2006):185-211.

                                                “My Fabulous Gay Wedding”: a Canadian reality TV show intended to be

                                                controversial. Article “traces a number of contemporary discourses around

                                                same-sex marriage that are illuminated…by responses to the show….” –

                                                from abstract, America: History & Life index.

 

Peters, Wendy Kathleen.

                        “Our Televisions, Our Selves: Popular (In)visibility, Marginalized Identities

                        and the Politics of ‘Queer As Folk’.”  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Toronto,

                        2006.

                        (302 p.; ISBN 9780494220351)

                                                “The U.S. cable television show ‘Queer As Folk’…aired in Canada from

                                                2000 to 2005 depicting a White, middle-class community of gays and

                                                lesbians….This dissertation explores the political economy of ‘gay TV’ in

                                                the early 2000s, offers a critical and qualitative textual analysis of QAF,

                                                and details viewers’ readings of the series….” – from abstract, ProQuest

                                                Dissertations & Theses, ProQuest document ID 1268616291; Publication

                                                no.  AAT NR22035.

 

Pope, Al.

                        “Spongebob Squarepants, Pro-homosexual Propagandist.”  Canadian Dimension

                        39(3) (May-June 2005): 7  (1 page; 701 words)

                                                Apparently James Dobson of a fundamentalist Christian group, Focus on

                                                the Family, is convinced of a gay plot to convert children to

                                                homosexuality through use of various TV cartoon characters, including

                                                Spongebob Squarepants.

 

Queer City Cinema.

   Gary Varro, guest curator. Regina, Sask.: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1996.

   (20 p.; ISBN 0920085474)

 

Queer Looks.

   SEE entry at Gever, Martha, in this section.

 

Ranger, Pierre, et Castiel, Elie.

                        “Image + nation [gaie et lesbienne] 2001: l’éveil; Marginalités en quête d’

                        intégration.”  Séquences [Montréal], no. 217, janv.-févr. 2002, pp. 22-23.

                                                Full text available through Repère electronic index as of Feb.5/03.

‘Image et nation gaie et lesbienne’ is a Montréal film festival. 

There are other articles about the festival elsewhere in the bibliography.

 

“Rethinking the Global ‘Gay Gaze’: This Year’s Inside Out Festival in Toronto

                        Brings Together Filmmakers from across the World Struggling to Reflect a

                        Community That Means Many Things to Many People….”  Globe and Mail

                        [Toronto ed.], May 18, 2004, p. R3.   

 

Rimpau, Ina.

   “We Are Not Just Good Friends: The Lesbian Subtext in Female Buddy Movies.”

   Fuse Magazine 14(5/6) (Summer 1991): 58-61.

 

Ross, Val.

   “Gay Filmmaking Comes of Age: ‘Inside Out.’  Toronto’s Annual Gay Film

   Festival Has Become a Key Launching Pad for Canadian Talent.”

   Globe and Mail, May 21, 1998, n.p.

                           Ref.: CPI.Q electronic index, which provided full text on Nov. 10, 2000.

                           Article states that Inside Out is “emerging as an important platform from

                           which to launch Canadian talent; past festivals have highlighted new films

                           by John Greyson, Jeremy Podeswa and Sky Gilbert. This year’s [1998’s]

                           schedule includes Daniel MacIvor’s…Until I Hear from You and Gerald

                           L’Ecuyer’s gentle salute to the death of his father and his own coming

                           out, The Grace of God.”

 

Roy, André.

   “Marginal, minimal, normal.”  24 images 59 (hiver 1992): 34-35.

                           Bilan des films présentés au festival Image et nation gaie et lesbienne de

                           Montréal, 1991 – Repère résumé.

 

“Roy Mitchell.”   This Magazine 31(5) (March-April 1998): 43.

                           This two-paragraph news note mentions several of Mitchell’s films,

                           including Proud Drivers of Canada, Delta Don, and a work “currently”

being developed, “Mother Goddere,” a documentary on a drag queen in

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.  Also mentioned is Jane Farrow’s Over the

Rainbow.  Article says that Mitchell explores “his love/hate relationship

with the gay community.”  The films in this note have not been listed

separately in the bibliography and     the compiler has no further information

about them.  Mitchell’s works are apparently distributed by Canadian

Filmmakers Distribution Centre [ Toronto].

 

Schmeiser, Peggy.

   “Deathbeds and Destruction: Representation of Female Intimacy in Western

   Religion and Film.”  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Ottawa, 1999.

   (194 p.)

                           Broader than scope of this bibliography. Includes discussion of the

                           movie genre, “lesbian thrillers.”

 

“Sex and the Sacred Girl: Patricia Rozema Confronts Her Calvinist Roots in a Hot New

   Film about Lesbian Romance.”  Maclean’s [Toronto ed.], May 8, 1995, pp. 93-95.

       Film is When Night is Falling, in the VIDEOS section of this list.

 

Siroonian, Jason Ara.

   “Gay Pornographic Videos: The Emergent Falcon Formula.”  MA thesis,

   McGill University, 1998.

   (56 p.)

 

Sloan, Johanne, and Lewis, Philip.

   “Double Trouble in Montreal: Queer History Goes to the Movies.”

   Parallelogramme [ Toronto] 18(4) (Spring 1993): 40-46.

                           Article appears in French in same issue, pp. 40-47, with title:

                           “Programme double à Montréal: histoire et cinéma en rose.”

 

Smith, Russell.

   “Don’t Call Me Queer: Sure, He Makes Gay Porn Movies – (And) Has an

   International Cult Following Because of It.  But…Bruce LaBruce’s Greatest

   Role Is Being Bruce LaBruce.”  <Toronto Life, December 1997, pp. 59-60, 62+.

 

Smoluch, Agata.

            “(Con)texts of Hybrid Authorship: Canadian Cinema, Feminism, Sexual

            Difference and the Dialogic Films of Patricia Rozema.”  M.A. thesis,

            York University, 1999.

            (123 p.)

 

“The Spell of Carnal Beauty: Any Mainstream Feature That Centres on Female

   Same-Sex Love Is Asking for It, Close Scrutiny, That Is: When Night is

   Falling.”  Canadian Forum 74 (842) (Sept. 1995): 28-29.

 

Spires, Randi.

   “The Inside Out Festival of Toronto [Part 2]: The Euclid Theatre and Cinecycle,

   May 6-16, 1993.”  Fuse Magazine 16 (5/6) (Summer 1993): 60-62.

                           See entry at Mohabeer, Michelle, in this section, for Part 1 of article.

 

Sternbergh, Adam.

                        “Mad About the Boys: ‘Locker Room,’ the World’s First Gay-Themed Sports

                        Show, Fearlessly Confronts Sexual Taboos.  On a Typical Episode, You

                        Might Find the Host Talking Up the Talents of, Say, Texas Ranger Ivan

                        Rodriguez: ‘He Makes Me Wonder Why Catchers Wear a Mask – Or

                        Pants!’.”  Toronto Life, October 2002, pagination not known.

                                                Ref.: CBCA electronic index, which provides full text as of

                                                February 3, 2003 and describes the show as “a low-budget

                                                digital cable program produced in Toronto.”

 

Steven, Peter, ed.

   Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics, and Counter-Cinema. Toronto: Between the Lines,

   1985.

   (400 p.; ISBN 003001963X; 0030019648; 0919946550; 0919946542)

                           “Collection of articles selected from the film magazine Jump Cut” –

                           Toronto Public Library catalogue note. Library applies descriptor

                           “Homosexuality in motion pictures” to this work. Jump Cut published in

                           Chicago[?]Included because of Canadian imprint. Additional points of

                           relevance unknown. Not seen.

 

Stuart, Jamie.

                        “In Another Bracket: Trans Acceptance in Lesbian Utopia.”  Journal of Lesbian

                        Studies 10(1-2) (2006): 215-229.

                                                Author discusses relationship of transgendered women to the lesbian

                                                community in light of the Canadian film “Better Than Chocolate.”

                                                Ref.: CSA Sociological Abstracts, which provides brief abstract.

                                                Compiler note: Film was listed in earlier edition in the VIDEOS

section.

 

Underwood, Nora.

            “Queer As Mainstream: Returning for Season Two, Queer As Folk Has Strong

            Heterosexual Following.”  Maclean’s [Toronto ed.], January 21, 2002,

            pp. 42, 44.

North American TV series, inspired by British series of same name,

set in US (Pittsburgh), but filmed in Toronto. Number of Canadian

references.

 

Varro, Gary, 1961-

   SEE entry at Queer City Cinema, in this section.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

            “Beyond Queer Alibis and Labels: Thoughts on ‘The Fruit Machine’ and

            ‘Little Sisters’.”  Parallelogramme [Toronto] 20(3) (1994): 46-57.

                                    Parallel text in French and English.  French title proper: “Au-delà des

                           alibis queers.”

 

Waugh, Thomas.

   “Cinemas, Nations, Masculinities: The Martin Walsh Memorial Lecture [1998].”

   Canadian Journal of Film Studies 8(1) (Spring 1999): 8-44.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

            “Cultivated Colonies: Notes on Queer Nationhood and the Erotic Image.”

   Canadian Journal of Film Studies 2 (Fall 1993): 145-178.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

                        “Fairy Tales of Two Cities, Or Queer Nation(s)/Urban Cinema(s).”

                        Canadian Journal of Film Studies 10(2)(Fall 2001): 102-125.

                                                Examines four films: À tout prendre, Il était une fois dans l’Est,

                                                Winter Kept Us Warm, and Outrageous.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

   “Les formes du discours [homo- et hétéro-] sexuel dans la nouvelle vidéo

   masculine.”  Communication 9(1) (été 1987): 45-66.

                           “Les oeuvres des artistes canadiens Jean Gagnon, Marc Paradis et John

                           Greyson” – Repère résumé.  Broader than scope of this bibliography.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

            The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema.

            Foreword by John Greyson.  NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

            (312 p.; ISBN 0822324334; 0822324687)

                                    Collection of film reviews and essays written by Waugh for a variety

                                    of publications over approximately the previous twenty years.  Broader

                                    geographically than focus of this bibliography.  However, numerous

                                    references to Montreal, where the author is a professor at Concordia University. 

                                    User should also see, especially, two Canadian-focussed 

                                    pieces – “Two Great Gay Filmmakers: Hello and Good-Bye,” pp. [195]-

                                    207, concerning Norman McLaren and Claude Jutra (author describes

                                    these men as “the two great queer filmmakers from my adopted hometown

                                    Montreal) and Archeology and Censorship,” pp. [272]-26, examining

                                    publishing difficulties.  See also the “Selected Additional Works [of

                                    Waugh]” section, pp. [297]-298, listing articles and books, some of

                                    which, as compiler judged appropriate, are given separate entry in this

bibliography.  Other entries, including that for one of Waugh’s major

works, Hard to Imagine, have not been included here on basis of inclusion

                                    criteria. The researcher in geographically broader glbt issues will, though,

                                    certainly want to consider these works.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

            “Good Clean Fung.”  Wide Angle: A Quarterly Journal of Film History, Theory,

            Criticism, and Practice [Athens, Ohio] 20(2) (1998): 164-175.

                                    Discussion of films of notable Canadian filmmaker, Richard Fung,

                                    including nine-item videography.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

                        “Monkey on the Back: Canadian Cinema, Conflicted Masculinities, and Queer

                        Silences in Canada’s Cold War.”  In Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada’s Cold War,

                        pp. 183-207.  Edited by Richard Cavell.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press,

                        2004.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

                        The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations,

                        Cinemas.  Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006.

                        (599 p.)

                                                Ref.: MLA International Bibliography.

 

Waugh, Thomas.

            “The Sexual Anxiety of the Boys’ Club.”  Copie zéro [Montréal], no. 24

            (June 1985): 7-9.

                                    Quotation from article: “I will focus somewhat selectively on four

                                    English-language Québécois films by men….My survey of the sexual

                                    dynamics of male anglophone features in 1984 will cover private

                                    production…as well as NFB [National Film Board of Canada]

                                    production.”  Films discussed are The Bad Boy (Daniel Petrie),

                                    Mother’s Meat Freud’s Flesh (Dimitri Estdelacropolis), The Masculine

                                    Mystique (John Smith and Giles Walker), and Other Tongues (Derek

                                    May).

 

Zeleki, Elleni.

            “The Politics of Curating. The Trouble with Normal: Queering Our Identities.”

            Fuse Magazine 24(4) (December 2001): 16-18.