Table of Contents

List of Plates Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: On Invisibility and Mortality 1. What is a Nice Lesbian Like You, Doing in a Film Like This? 2. The Meaning of Treut 3. Oranges are Not the Only Fruit: Reaching Audiences Other Texts Cannot Reach 4. Salmonberries: Consuming kd lang 5. Sex in the Summer of '88 6. `If You Don't Play, You Can't Win': Desert Hearts and the Lesbian Romance Film 7. Portrait of a Production 8. The Space Between: Daughters and Lovers in Anne Trister 9. On Not Being Lady Macbeth: Some (Troubled) Thoughts on Lesbian Spectatorship 10. Girl's Camp? The Politics of Parody 11. Looking at Pumping Iron II: The Women 12. Desire and Design - Ripley Undressed 13. Interview with Andrea Weiss and Greta Schiller

About the Author

Tamsin Wilton is Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy at the University of the West of England, where she also teaches Women’s Studies and Lesbian Studies.

Reviews

"This timely collection illustrates the richness of contemporary lesbian thought. Brilliantly negotiating and opening up a new space within and between feminist and queer theory, it illuminates not just the lesbian representations of recent years, but the centrality of lesbianism to all film images. Encompassing production and reception as well the films in their own right, the whole collection is characterized by clarity and sophistication of thought, enthusiasm and pleasure in film and inspiring intellectual energy.."
-Richard Dyer, author of "Now You See It
..."this work is invaluable for any theatre or film scholar grappling with questions surrounding queer studies and feminism and the position of a lesbian subject within each theoretical and political construct...adds some interesting new voices to the conversation about queerness, feminism, and representation.."
-"Theatre Insight, Jules Odendahl
..."a rich group of essays that together makes a substantial contribution to a greatly underaddressed area in film studies, and indeed in theoretical circles at large.."
-"Journal of the History of Sexuality