...Bridges and Mismatches ...

... This chapter turns to register, positing that to capture queer modes of belonging in the world, queer cinema deploys cinematic tone, feeling, and affect in radical ways. This chapter brings together films with apparently mismatched registers of tone and cultural hierarchy, finding resonance...

... these little-known photo-essays parallel to the critical reception of Hitchcock’s cinema by highbrow critics on the cusp of his television engagement. Hitchcock’s body-accented cinema is analyzed in terms of mismatches between himself and his characters’ body profiles, invoking fat studies as well as notions...