THE CINEMA OF TODD HAYNES
All That Heaven Allows
James Morrison (ed.)January 2006
224 pages
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James Morrison is Associate Professor in Film in the Department of Literature at the Claremont McKenna College, California. He is the author of Passport to Hollywood: Hollywood Films, European Directors (1998) as well as books on Roman Polanski and Terrence Malick.
– Michael Bronski, The Guide
'Todd Haynes deserves this book, and this book deserves praise as a comprehensive, dialogic engagement with his body of work to date. James Morrison and his wide range of contributors bring each film into focus through a set of finely ground lenses - postmodern, political, queer, generic - that also informed the work's conception. A collection as intellectually and emotionally generous as Haynes' films.'
– Patricia White, Swarthmore College
'Ordinarily a book of theoretically-besotted essays on the cinema offers little more than a long dull slog through the painfully obvious. You don't have to have read Lacan on ‘The Mirror Stage' to know that Hitchcock deals with sexuality at its most fetishized. In fact what the noted French mythomanic has to say may well work against any and all manner of understanding of Hitchcock's art. But you can't steer so easily away from theory when it comes to the works of Todd Haynes. Semiotics was his major at Brown university, and that fact informs every single one of his films... In the notes to the many well-crafted essays about these films that comprise The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows, you'll find citations of everything from the American Psychiatric Association's 1987 ‘Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders', to Dr. Frederic Wertham's ‘Seduction of the Innocents' (a famous piece of 50's hysteria that claimed Batman and Robin would turn post World War II America's children gay) to James Baldwin's brilliant and sadly little discussed essay on African-American moviegoing, The Devil Finds Work, right on through to citations of such theoretical regulars as Jacqueline Rose, Laura Mulvey, and Mary Anne Doane. Add the queer likes of Wayne Koestenbaum and D.A. Miller to your footnotes and it's clear you've got yourself a book worth reading – and teaching.'
– David Ehrenstein, Screening the Past, Winter 2007/8

















