... of feeling is a motive for murder? A set of densities thickening motive — also thickening the queerness of children — surrounds these two different scenes of slaughter, both from the fifties, and their portrayals in two famous texts: Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood (1965) and Peter Jackson’s Heavenly...

... Hollywood divas and their homosexual contemporaries such as Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams; and the drag culture increasingly visible since the 1980s. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 bitchiness Jane...

... Decena is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies at Rutgers University. UNANSWERED PRAYERS Shelton Waldrep Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote Edited by Gerald Clarke New York: Random House, 2004. xvi + 487 pp...

... Shelton Waldrep Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote Edited by Gerald Clarke New York: Random House, 2004. xvi + 487 pp. Truman Capote’s place in modern letters became certain with the publication of his blockbuster “nonfi ction novel” In Cold Blood in 1966. It is diffi cult now...

... Shelton Waldrep Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote Edited by Gerald Clarke New York: Random House, 2004. xvi + 487 pp. Truman Capote’s place in modern letters became certain with the publication of his blockbuster “nonfi ction novel” In Cold Blood in 1966. It is diffi cult now...

... Shelton Waldrep Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote Edited by Gerald Clarke New York: Random House, 2004. xvi + 487 pp. Truman Capote’s place in modern letters became certain with the publication of his blockbuster “nonfi ction novel” In Cold Blood in 1966. It is diffi cult now...

... Shelton Waldrep Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote Edited by Gerald Clarke New York: Random House, 2004. xvi + 487 pp. Truman Capote’s place in modern letters became certain with the publication of his blockbuster “nonfi ction novel” In Cold Blood in 1966. It is diffi cult now...

... Decena is assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean studies at Rutgers University. UNANSWERED PRAYERS Shelton Waldrep Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote Edited by Gerald Clarke New York: Random House, 2004. xvi + 487 pp...

... a genuine SCREWING WITH CHILDREN IN HENRY JAMES 371 memoir—it might be an amusette written by someone else, perhaps Douglas him- self. The screenplay for The Innocents was adapted by Truman Capote from a 1950 stage version by William Archibald (the credits mention four...

... the dead and from the past; and whether video might help. While Jim performs himself, poetry by Emily Dickinson, and a poor imitation of Truman Capote, he also attempts to nar- rate a meaningful rendition of his life. We watch, knowing he and so many other campy, musical...

... queer or transgender roles to such nonqueer actors as Cillian Murphy (Breakfast on Pluto), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote), Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry), Felicity Huffman (Transamerica), or Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain). For Lipson...

...Scott Herring Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

...Dwight A. McBride Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

...Martin F. Manalansan, IV Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old...

...John Howard Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

...Michael Cobb Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

...Corey K. Creekmur Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

...Dana Luciano Duke University Press 2006 Moving Image Review BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN DOSSIER Introduction Scott Herring Why single out Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain for critique? Why now? In a busy year that saw the release of queer films such as Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

...? Queer Temporalities of Murderous Motives among Queer Children,” argues that motive and childhood tend to count as explanations or causes, for a crime and a sexual identity, respectively. But in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Crea- tures and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, “motive” becomes extremely...

... Wilde, George Cukor, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote: all qualify as exemplary figures of queer visibility whose taste and wit have been seen to offer audiences relief from a deficient, stag- nant, unfulfilling relationship to culture—a relationship seen as a burden of mod- ern convention and, notably...