Stacey (cultural and women's studies, Lancaster U., UK) and Street (film, U. of Bristol) searched two decades of issues of the Screen film journal to compile these 17 articles on queer
films--explorations of deviance from heterosexuality in both explicit and subtle modes, as influenced by either the screenwriting, direction, acting, and/or audience reception. Films such as
Alien Resurrection, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Pedro Almod籀var's The Law of Desire are examined, along with less mainstream works by Richard Fung, Ulrike Ottinger, and others. Among the
themes explored are: queerness and technology, racialization in Joanna d'Arc of Mongolia, and representations of the queer body. The final section comprises six critical discussions of Boys
Don't Cry debating its pitfalls and achievements in the frame of queer theory and transsexual identity. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
