Queer Readings
compiled by Kathy Burdette, burdette@info.umd.edu

The following essays and books discuss queer readings of texts not 
explicitly concerned with same-sex sexuality.  

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Alcock, Beverly, and Jocelyn Robson, "Cagney and Lacey Revisited,"  Feminist 	
	Review, no. 35 (Summer 1990), 42-52.

Burston, Paul, and Colin Richardson, eds.  A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay 	
	Men and Popular Culture.  New York:  Routledge, 1995.

Creech, James.  Closet Writing/Gay Reading.  Chicago:  University of Chicago 	
	Press, 1993.

Doty, Alexander.  Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture. 	
	Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Dyer, Richard.  Brief Encounter.  London:  BFI Publishing, 1993.

Dyer, Richard.  Heavenly Bodies.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.

Farwell, Marilyn..  "Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts," In Lesbian 
	Texts and Contexts:  Radical Revisions, ed. Karla Jay and Joanne 
	Glasgow, 91-103.  New York:  New York University Press, 1990.

Fetterly, Judith.  "Reading Deephaven as a Lesbian Text,"  In Sexual Practice, 	
	Textual Theory, ed. Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope, 164-183.
 	Cambridge, Mass.:  Blackwell, 1993.

Mayne, Judith.  "Lesbian Looks:   Dorothy Arzner and Female Authorship," In 	
	How Do I  Look:  Queer Film and Video, ed. Bad Object Choices, 
	103-144.  Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.

Mayne, Judith.  "A Parallax View  of Lesbian Authorship," In Inside/Out, ed. 	
	Diana Fuss,  173-184.  New York:  Routledge, 1991.

Mayne, Judith.  The Woman at the Keyhole.  Indianapolis:  Indiana University 	
	Press, 1990.

Medhurst, Andy.  "That Special Thrill:  Brief Encounter, Homosexuality, and 	
	Authorship."  Screen  vol. 32.  no. 2.  Summer 1991.  197-208.

Miller, D.A.  "Anal Rope,"  In Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories, ed. 	
	Diana Fuss, 119-141.  New York:  Routledge, 1991.

Smith, Barbara.  "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism."  Women's Studies 	
	International Quarterly  vol 2. (1979):  183-194.

Stacey, Jackie.  "Desperately Seeking Difference,"  In The Sexual Subject, ed. 	
	Screen, 244-257.  New York:  Routledge, 1992.

Straayer, Chris.  "The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film,"
	In   Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism, ed.  Diane Carson, 
	et al, 	343-357.  Mineapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Weiss, Andrea.  "A  Queer Feeling When I Look at You." In Multiple Voices in 	
	Feminist Film Criticism, ed. Diane Carson, et al, 330-342.  
	Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Weiss, Andrea.  Vampires and Violets:  Lesbians in the Cinema.  London:  	
	Jonathan Cape, 1992.

White, Patricia.  "Female Spectator, Lesbian Spector:  The Haunting," In 	
	Inside/Out, ed. Diana Fuss, 142-172.  New York:  Routledge, 1991.

Wood, Robin.  "An Introduction to the American Horror Film,"  In Movies and 	
	Methods, vol. 2, ed. Bill Nichols, 195-219.  Berkeley:  University of 	
	California Press, 1985.

Wood, Robin.  "Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic,"  In  Movies and Methods,
	vol. 2, ed.  Bill Nichols, 649-660 .  Berkeley:  University of 
	California Press, 1985.

Zimmerman, Bonnie.  "Perverse Reading:  The Lesbian Appropriation of 	
	Literature,"  In  Sexual Practice, Textual Theory, ed. Susan J. Wolfe 
	and Julia Penelope,  125-134.  Cambridge, Mass.:  Blackwell, 1993.