The term "queer cinema" is often used to name at least three cultural events: 1) an emergent visual culture that boldly identifies as queer; 2) a body of narrative, documentary, and experimental work previously collated under the rubric of homosexual or lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) cinema; 3) a means of critically reading and evaluating films and other visual media through the lens of sexuality. By this expansive account, queer cinema encompasses more than a century of filmmaking, film criticism, and film reception, and the past twenty-five years have seen the idea of "queer cinema" expand further as a descriptor for a global arts practice. As the first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema treats these three currents as art and critical practice, bringing the canon of queer cinema together with a new generation of makers and scholars.The Handbook's contributors include scholars who research the worldwide canon of queer cinema, those who are uniquely positioned to address three decades of its particular importance, and those best positioned to ponder the forms it is taking or may take in our new century, namely digital media that moves in new circuits. In eight sections, they explore the many forms that queer cinema takes across time, discussing narrative, experimental, documentary, and genre filmmaking, including pornography. Likewise, although the study of cinema and media is not restricted to a single method, chapters showcase the unique combination of textual analysis, industrial and production history, interpretation, ethnography, and archival research that this field enables. For example, chapters analyze the ways in which queer cinema both is and is not self-evidently an object for study by examining films that reinforce negative understandings of queerness alongside those that liberate the subject; and by naming the films that are newly queered, while noting that many queerly-made texts await discovery. Finally, chapters necessarily assert that queer cinema is not an Anglophone phenomenon, nor is it restricted to the medium of film.

IntroductionAmy Villarejo and Ronald GreggDefining Queer Cinema: Rethinking Methodology and the Archive1. After the New Queer Cinema: Intersectionality vs. FascismB. Ruby Rich2. Queer PedagogyTom Waugh3. More than Meets the Eye: On Facing without Fully Knowing the Queer Worlds around UsNick Davis4. Lesbian Cinephilia and Digital AffordancesPatricia WhiteReexamining the Queer Canon in Silent and Classical Hollywood Film5. Queer Laughter in the Archives of Silent Film ComedyMaggie Hennefeld6. Arias for an Untold Want: The Queer Desire of the Diva FilmDolores McElroy7. "There's a Rainbow on the River": The Affordances of Boy Soprano Bobby Breen In 1930s HollywoodAllison McCracken8. A Duet for Sailors and Pansies: Queer Archival Work and Male Same-Sex Dancing in Follow the Fleet (1936) and other Depression-Era FilmsDavid Lugowski9. This Can't Be Legal? Queer Masculinities in the 1940s Hollywood MusicalSteven CohanEuropean Art Cinema and American Experimental Film Before Stonewall: Remapping the Queer Canon10. Looking Through the Rear-View Mirror: Queer Inter-Zones in French Cinema 1895-1945James Williams11. Trances, Myth, Bachelor Machines, and Abstractions: Queer Experimental Film in the Cold War Era (1943-1962)Juan Antonio Su?rez12. On Marginality: La Dolce Vita's HomosexualsRichard Dyer13. Teorema's Death DriveDamon YoungMethodology and Queer Archives between Stonewall and New Queer Cinema14. Barbara Hammer: Lesbian Feminist Iconography and Queer AestheticsSarah Keller15. Greener Pastures: Filming Sex and Place at Druid HeightsGreg Youmans16. For Shame!: On the History of Programming Queer "Bad Objects"Marc Francis17. 'A Panorama of Gay Life': Nighthawks and British Queer Cinema in the 1970sGlyn DavisNew Queer Cinema and Media: Revolutionizing the Archive18. Invasion of the Child Snatchers: Pedophilic Seduction in New Queer CinemaAra Osterweil19. Mirror Scene: Transgender Aesthetics in The Matrix and Boys Don't CryCael M. Keegan20. Representing Ourselves into Existence: The Cultural, Political, and Aesthetic Work of Transgender Film Festivals in 1990sLaura Horak21. Making a Scene: Queercore CinemaCurran NaultCreating, Curating, Archiving Post-Stonewall Queer Cinema: First Person Accounts22. Lavender Images & Poetic Landscapes: My Thirty Years in the Queer Film EcosystemJenni Olson23. Andy and Me (It's Not Real and It's Not Fiction)Tom Kalin24. VHS Archives, Committed Media Praxis, and "Queer Cinema"Alexandra JuhaszGlobal Queer Cinema25. Documentary Disclosures: The Emergence of Queer Independent Filmmaking in IndiaShohini Ghosh26. Syndromes and a Century: Contemporary Queer Thai CinemaArnika Fuhrmann27. Queerly, Hopelessly, Precariously: Reimagining a Queer Politics of Globalization Through Three Taiwan FilmsHwa-Jen Tsai28. Tracing Lesbian Cinema in Latin AmericaVinodh VenkateshNew Queer Voices, Forms, and Aesthetics29. Queer Theory and Nontheatrical Films: Perversion in the Public DomainLauren Pilcher30. Brother to Brother and the 'Place' of Film in Black Queer HistoryKara Keeling31. Excessive Attachments: 21st Century Queer and Trans Video Art in the United StatesWilliam J. Simmons