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Notes on Contributors

Introduction
James Morrison

1 Storytelling and Information in Todd Haynes’ Films
Marcia Landy
2 Now is the Time of the Assassins
Joan Hawkins
3 To Appear, to Disappear: Jean Genet and Poison
Sam Ishii-Gonzales
4 Mediating Queer Boyhood: Dottie Gets Spanked
Lucas Hilderbrand
5 Nurtured in Darkness: Queer Childhood in the Films of Todd Haynes
Jon Davies
6 Allegory, mise-en-scène, AIDS: Interpreting Safe
John David Rhodes
7 Safe in Lotosland
Murray Pomerance
8 ‘The Invention of a People’: Velvet Goldmine and the Unburying of Queer Desire
Nick Davis
9 Orange and Blue, Desire and Loss: The Colour Score in Far from Heaven
Scott Higgins
10 Relocating Our Enjoyment of the 1950s: The Politics of Fantasy in Far from Heaven
Todd McGowan
11 ‘Beyond the surface of things’: Race, Representation and the Fine Arts in Far from Heaven
Celeste-Marie Bernier
12 Todd Haynes in Theory and Practice
James Morrison
13 Todd Haynes’ Melodramas of Abstraction
Anat Pick
14 From the Scenes of Queens: Genre, AIDS and Queer Love
Alexandra Juhasz

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Index