Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic

by Wendy Gay Pearson, Susan Knabe

Overview

A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient Zero, the male flight attendant accused in Randy Shilts' book And the Band Played On of bringing the AIDS crisis to North America. Wendy Gay Pearson and Susan Knabe both teach in the women's studies and Feminist Research department at the University of Western Ontario. Arsenal's Queer Film Classics series cover some of the most important and influential films about and by LGBTQ people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551524221
Publisher:	Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited
Publication date:	01/03/2012
Series:	Queer Film Classics Series
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Wendy Gay Pearson: Wendy Gay Pearson is an Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. She has published widely on discourses of sexuality, race, citizenship and belonging in contemporary film and literature, with a focus on lesbian and gay and Indigenous issues as well as on sexuality and gender in science fiction. She is the co-editor (with Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon) of Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool UP, 2008).
Susan Knabe: Susan Knabe is an Assistant Professor in both the departments of Media and Information Technology and of Women’s Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include the construction of gender and sexuality in discourses of health and disease as well as the representation of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity in film and media.

Editorial Reviews

"A gripping tale ... Passionate and smart." —Andrew Holleran, Washington Post

"[Knabe and Pearson] offer through the lens of the film a concise and pointed history of the development of the AIDS crisis and the queer community's various responses to it in the 1980s and early 90s." —Film Quarterly

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