Features the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a notion of queer film criticism. This book examines various aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship. It also examines a wide array of films, including "Calamity Jane", "Rear Window", "The Hunger", "Heavenly Creatures", and "Bound".

By exploring new approaches to the study of sexuality in film, "Out Takes" will be useful to scholars in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and cinema studies. The contributors include Bonnie Burns, Steven Cohan, Alexander Doty, Lee Edelman, Michelle Elleray, Jim Ellis, Ellis Hanson, D. A. Miller, Eric Savoy, Matthew Tinkcom, Amy Villarejo and Jean Walton.

Contents: Introduction: Out Takes, Ellis Hanson Cruise Control: Rethinking Masculinity in Classic CinemaQueering the Deal: On the Road with Hope and Crosby, Steven Cohan The Queer Aesthete, the Diva, and The Red Shoes, Alexander Doty Rear Window's Glasshole, Lee Edelman Visual Pleasure in 1959, D. A. Miller Lesbian Looks: Desire, Identification, Fantasy Cassandra's Eyes, Bonnie Burns "That Ain't All She Ain't": Doris Day and Queer Performativity, Eric Savoy Lesbians Who Bite, Ellis Hanson Heavenly Creatures in Godzone, Michelle Elleray Queering the Reel: Sexual Politics and Independent Cinema White Neurotics, Black Primitives, and the Queer Matrix of Borderline, Jean Walton Scandalous! Kenneth Anger and the Prohibitions of Hollywood History, Matthew Tinkcom Queer Period: Derek Jarman's Renaissance, Jim Ellis Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History, Amy Villarejo