The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson 9780773588967

Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword
1 Introduction
PART I: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS, QUEER ACTIVISM
2 Notes on Greyzone
3 Solidarity in Motion: Manzana por Manzana and To Pick Is Not to Choose
4 “Tell a Story, Save a Life” (Montage 1987–89)
5 Buggering John Greyson
6 John Greyson’s After the Bath, Moral Panic, and Interpublic Address
PART II: OBSESSIONS
7 John Greyson’s Queer Internationalism
8 Parsing the Transnational in John Greyson’s Queer Cinema: Proteus, Fig Trees, Covered, and Hey Elton
9 Fables of Empire: The Intimate Histories of John Greyson
10 And Now for Something Completely Dissident: The “Parodic Historical” and “Archival Necrology” of John Greyson
11 Froth and Its Uses
12 Greyson, Grierson, Godard, God: Reflections on the Cinema of John Greyson (2002)
13 “Strike a Pose”: Notes towards Queering Tableau and Temporality in the Work of John Greyson
14 Audio Visual Judo
15 “God is a lesbian,” Says John
PART III: IN HIS OWN WORDS
16 The Boxboys (from The Body Politic, September 1979)
17 Fact and Fiction (from The Body Politic, November 1979)
18 Skirting the Issue (from The Body Politic, April 1981)
19 Queer behind the Curtain: Interview with John Greyson (from The Body Politic, October 1985)
20 Parma Violets (from Urinal and Other Stories, [1988] 1993)
21 Still Searching (from A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art & Contemporary Cultures, 1992)
22 Security Blankets: Sex, Video, and the Police (from Queer Looks: Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video, 1993)
23 The Coconut Strategy: Shape-Shifting in Filmmaking (from Montage, Fall 2001)
24 Something Always Seems to Go Wrong Somewhere: Eisenstein at the Barricades, Pasolini at the Baths (from Public 25 [2002])
25 The Singing Dunes: Colin Campbell, 1943–2001 (from C Magazine, 2002)
26 PILS SLIP (from Vertigo, Autumn 2005)
27 Everett Klippert: A Musical Waiting to Happen (unpublished, 2005)
28 A Whore on Terror: Several Quodlibets (unpublished, 2006)
29 Waiting for Gaydot (unpublished, 2009)
PART IV: THE FILMS
30 Defending Desire: Direct(ing) Gay Male Sex (1996)
31 On the Uses and Disadvantages of a History of the Other: An Untimely Meditation (1995)
32 “Nice gun you’ve got there”: John Greyson’s Critique of Masculinity (1992)
33 “Bash back, baby, your life depends on it”: Pedagogical Responses to Anti-Gay Violence in John Greyson’s The Making of “Monsters”
34 Zero Patience, The Musical
35 “But … it’s so beautiful”: Collective Fantasy in Lilies
36 Three Peters and an Obsession with Pierre: Intellectual Property in John Greyson’s Un©ut
37 Counting Time in The Law of Enclosures
38 Queer Anachronism and National Memory in Proteus
39 Ten Propositions on Operatic Subversions and the “Charge of the Real” in John Greyson’s Fig Trees
40 Thoughts on Fig Trees (2003)
41 Opera Games (2003)
Filmography
John Greyson: Selected Writings
Works Cited
Contributors
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