Product Description

This collection offers 15 critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its controversial film adaptation by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and director Ang Lee. Each essay explores the short story, the film, and the sociocultural phenomenon that followed the release of the motion picture in December 2005.

This anthology includes selections from traditional perspectives and from postmodern angles, including women's studies, gender studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and American studies. Many of the essays focus primarily on the film, its critical reception, its stars, its director, its soundtrack, and its cultural implications.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #277482 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-17
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

About the Author
Jim Stacy is an associate professor of theatre and communication studies at Louisiana State University at Alexandria. He has directed and acted in many plays and published widely in theatrical journals. He lives in Alexandria, Louisiana.

Customer Reviews

Scholarly reviews
Well done review by several scholars on Brokeback Mountain, the movie, the screenplay, and the short story. Each review is well done, tho I am sure readers will take exception to some; however, different viewpoints help w/perceptions I feel. For those who want a more in depth "study" of Brokeback Mtn on many levels (cultural, artistic, aesthetic) this book is a must!

Reading Brokeback Mountain--a unique collation
This collection of essays and the selected bibliography of about 130 entries is a unique collation of the scholarly conversations from various disciplines--literature, anthropology, psychology,popular culture--written in response to Brokeback Mountain. They offer of insight into the story itself as well as exploration of the strong, but hard-to-define responses, that the story evokes. Teachers of literature, theater, film, anthropology, sociology, and psychology are already using Brokeback Mountain for classroom study and discussion; they will find practical use for these authoritative studies. Non-academic readers will find the essays interesting, readable, and helpful in understanding with their own responses to the story.