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Art Cinema
art house cinema
Author_Marc Francis
B. Ruby Rich
bisexuality
carnivalesque
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Classic Hollywood
Curation
Deviance Studies
digital streaming
double feature
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eroticism
film festivals
Film programming
intertextual analysis
Intertextuality
Iris Barry
John Waters
Judith Mayne
lesbian feminism
new queer cinema
Pauline Kael
perversion
Pier Paolo Pasolini
pornography
Queer theory
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
repertory cinema
Russ Meyer
Russ Meyers
Sex in motion pictures
sociology
taste
temporality
trash
urban
Product details
- ISBN 9781478033080
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Curating Deviance, Marc Francis scavenges film history for signs of vibrant, wayward life in the film programming of US art house and repertory cinemas between 1968 and 1989. Francis examines how creative and savvy programmers screened films by the likes of John Waters, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Russ Meyer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and a bevy of others in major cities across the United States, forming intertextual constellations in their repertory calendars. These programs allied a dizzying range of sexual and gendered outlaws, including stigmatized practices often overlooked by LGBT-focused queer theory. Curating Deviance reveals how repertory and art cinemas built a coalition of outcasts stigmatized for their taboo desires or identities, rekindling queer utopian imaginaries.
Marc Francis is Manager of Film Programming in Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University and has worked at HBO, Warner Bros, and Paramount.
