On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the FilmOn Brokeback Mountain provides accessible, close, and comparative readings of the story and the film, discussing them in relation to the social history of sexual minority men in America. By analyzing the literary and artistic traditions of the homoerotic pastoral, the popular tradition of the Western, and the tradition of the tragic romantic love story, the book explores the American cultural construction of masculinity, friendship, and sexual relationships between men, and the sources and effects of homophobia. |
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Reactions To Brokeback Mountain | xlv |
A Companion Where None Had Been Expected Friendship | 1 |
Guns Goin Off Sex | 41 |
The Rushing Cold of the Mountain Nature | 73 |
We Do That in the Wrong Place Well Be Dead Hatred and Fear | 135 |
Separate and Difficult Lives Love | 177 |
What We Got Now Is Brokeback Mountain Everything Built on That Memory | 245 |
The Pair Like Two Skins One inside the Other Two in One Myths of Love | 265 |
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