List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Pasts and Futures of a Story and a Film
William R. Handley
Part 1. Gay or Universal Story? Initial Debates and Cultural Contexts
1. Men in Love: Is Brokeback Mountain a Gay Film?
David Leavitt
2. An Affair to Remember
Daniel Mendelsohn
3. Response to "An Affair to Remember"
James Schamus
4. The Magic Mountain
Andrew Holleran
5. Backs Unbroken: Ang Lee, Forbearance, and the Closet
Mun-Hou Lo
Part 2. Miles to Go and Promises to Keep: Homophobic Culture and Gay Civil Rights
6. Back to the Ranch Ag'in: Brokeback Mountain and Gay Civil Rights
James Morrison
7. Breaking No Ground: Why Crash Won, Why Brokeback Lost, and How the Academy Chose to Play It Safe
Kenneth Turan
8. "Jack, I Swear": Some Promises to Gay Culture from Mainstream Hollywood
Chris Freeman
9. "Better Two Than One": The Shirts from Brokeback Mountain
Gregory Hinton
10. American Eden: Nature, Homophobic Violence, and the Social Imaginary
Colin Carman
11. West of the Closet, Fear on the Range
Alex Hunt
Part 3. Adapting "Brokeback Mountain," Queering the Western
12. Interview between Michael Silverblatt and Annie Proulx
13. In the Shadow of the Tire Iron
Alan Dale
14. Adapting Annie Proulx's Story to the Mainstream Multiplex
Adam Sonstegard
15. Not So Lonesome Cowboys: The Queer Western
Judith Halberstam
Part 4. Public Responses and Cultural Appropriations
16. "One Dies, the Other Doesn't": Brokeback and the Blogosphere
Noah Tsika
17. Making Sense of the Brokeback Paraphenomenon
David Weiss
18. Alberta, Authenticity, and Queer Erasure
Jon Davies
Part 5. Scenes of Work and Experience in the Rural West
19. Real Gay Cowboys and Brokeback Mountain
Patricia Nell Warren
20. Marx on the Mountain: Pleasure and the Laboring Body
Vanessa Osborne
21. Personal Borders
Martin Aguilera
Part 6. Sympathy, Melodrama, and Passion
22. Mother Twist: Brokeback Mountain and Male Melodrama
Susan McCabe
23. Passion and Sympathy in Brokeback Mountain
Calvin Bedient
Selected Brokeback Bibliography
Works Cited
Contributors
