Montreal Main by Thomas Waugh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic considers the brilliant yetneglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal'sbohemian neighborhood \"The Main\" and hailedat its premiere at the Whitney Museum ofAmerican Art. The movie, directed and starringFrank Vitale, is both a great indie film and agreat queer film; a fascinating cinema vérité takeon North American social mores and relationshipsin the 1970s, about a twentysomethingphotographer living among the outcasts, junkies, and artists populating the Main, and hisgrowing obsession with Johnny, the young sonof acquaintances, a relationship that is doomedfrom the start. Disarming in its matter-of-facttreatment of potentially sensational themes, Montreal Main is a quiet yet powerful look athuman relations among the post-flower powergeneration. The book, a collaboration between ThomasWaugh and Jason Garrison, details the nuancedhistory of this peculiar film, which was releasedon DVD for the first time in 2009. It also considersthe politics and aesthetics of the trope ofintergenerational love that director Vitale andcollaborators Allan Moyle and Stephen Lack sobrazenly probed, in a way that would make thefilm virtually impossible to produce in presentday. The QUEER FILM CLASSICS series, begun in2009, consists of critical yet populist monographson classic films of interest to LGBT audienceswritten by esteemed film scholars and critics. The series is edited by authors Thomas Waugh (Out/Lines, Lust Unearthed) and MatthewHays (The View from Here). | Montreal Main by Thomas Waugh, Paperback | Indigo Chapters