Queer Imaginings: On Writing and Cinematic Friendship

How can a reader recognise a 'queer auteur', and what do queer imaginings look like on screen? David A. Gerstner takes up these questions across eighteen chapters, treating the terms queer and auteur as bound up with surprise, irony and ambiguity.

The book traces a history of ideas around auteur theory, which it describes as a terrain that keeps shifting. Gerstner asks how such a figure can be accounted for when biography, aesthetics and paradox all complicate the picture.

The book will interest readers of film studies, queer studies and writing about cinema. It is published by Wayne State University Press, ISBN-13 9780814350218.