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GODS & MONSTERS Arsenal Pulp Press | Vancouver GODS & MONSTERS A QuEER FilM ClASSiC Noah Tsika GODS & MONSTERS: A Queer Film Classic Copyright © 2009 by Noah Tsika All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any part or used by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical—without the prior written permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may use a brief excerpt in a review, or in the case of photocopying in Canada, a license from Access Copyright. ARSENAL PULP PRESS 341 Water Street, Suite 200 Vancouver, BC V6B 1B8 Canada arsenalpulp.com Queer Film Classics series editors: Matthew Hays and Thomas Waugh Cover and text design by Shyla Seller Edited for the press by Susan Safyan All film stills (except where indicated) © Lions Gate Films Inc. Printed and bound in Canada CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA Tsika, Noah, 1983- Gods and monsters / Noah Tsika. (Queer film classics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-55152-263-0 1.Gods and monsters (Motion picture). I. Title. II.Series: Queer film classics PN1997.2.G64T84 2009 791.43’72 C2009-905374-8 For Michael Bronski CONTENTS 8 | Acknowledgments 12 | Synopsis 14 | Credits 16 | One: Condon’s Hollywood: Gay, Hunk-Colonized … and White 46 | Two: Biopic Politics 102 | Three: Finding Frankenstein 137 | Four: Lynn 159 | References 163 | Index Acknowledgments This book is the result of years of study, and I would like to acknowledge the generous support of the following orga- nizations, institutions, and individuals: Dartmouth College provided me with need-based scholarships throughout my undergraduate years, and I owe an enormous, luckily figura- tive, debt to those who make such enhanced financial aid programs possible. Dartmouth’s Department of Film & Me- dia Studies further nourished me, and I would like to thank Amy Lawrence and Mary Desjardins for their tutelage, friendship, and inspiration. Amy and Brenda Silver both devoted time and passion to my independent projects, and Carolynne Krusi guided me outside of the classroom. My interest in biopics began at Brown University. I would like to thank Brown’s Office of Summer Studies for support- ing me, as well as the Departments of Sociology and Eng- lish, where I first tested some of the ideas that appear in this book. I was fortunate to spend two years studying at Cornell University, where Sabine Haenni helped me to refine my film criticism. I would like to thank Cornell’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance, the staff of Cornell Cinema, and, in particular, Mary Fessenden. While at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, I re- ceived a Rackham Travel Grant that enabled me to conduct research in Los Angeles. Also at Michigan, Catherine Be- namou, Bambi Haggins, and David Halperin mentored me 8 Gods and Monsters with aplomb. Thanks to the Spectrum Center and to Gabe Javier. Thanks to the staff of Student Legal Services. I owe a special, somewhat unusual debt to the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where I am supported by a Corrigan Fellowship: thanks to Ken Sweeney, to Department Chair Richard Al- len, and especially to Antonia Lant, Anna McCarthy, Dana Polan, Chris Straayer, and Jonathan Kahana. Robert Sklar has long guided me, and I am deeply grateful for his gener- osity. For the past four years, my colleagues Nate Brennan and Michelle Kelley have been key interlocutors and, more importantly, precious friends. During the early stages of this project, Dana C. Gravesen gave me much-needed advice and encouragement. I would like to thank the many friends whose spirited in- sights have made going to the movies a gregarious activity: Moya Luckett, Caspar Lant, Kevin Arnold, David Harvey, Marta Hafner, Edward Hibbert, Kristy Rawson, Tristan Jackson, Dylan Jackson, Jonathan Kron, Marjorie Sen, Zach Udko, Beau Brinker, Daniel Solon, Stephen Ackerman, Kristen Noonan, Megan Histen, Wes Webb, and Tarik Cherkaoui. Christopher Bram’s books and his friendship have helped me to better understand the worlds of Broad- way and Hollywood, and I thank Chris for his generosity with interview time; those Bram quotes that don’t come from Father of Frankenstein come from my conversations with the author. 9

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