Contains articles published in "Screen" between 1990 and 2004, spanning the period during which queer studies and the 'New Queer Cinema' flourished. This work addresses issues of bodies and technologies, as well as reprinting the debate, spanning several issues of the journal, about the 'queer' movie "Boys Don't Cry".

Introduction: Jackie Stacey and Sarah Street 1. Queering Film Theory Teresa de Lauretis ‘Guerrilla in the midst: women’s cinema in the 80s’ Andy Medhurst ‘That special thrill: Brief Encounter, homosexuality and authorship’ 2. Queering Psychoanalysis and Technologies of Gender Ellis Hanson ‘Technology, paranoia and the queer voice’ Jackie Stacey ‘She is not herself: the deviant relations of Alien Resurrection’ Lee Wallace ‘Continuous sex: the editing of homosexuality in Bound and Rope’ 3. Race, Desire and Queer Film Kristen Whissel ‘Racialized spectacle, exchange relations, and the Western in Joanna d’Arc of Mongolia’ Julia Erhart ‘From Nazi whore to good German mother: revisiting resistance inthe Holocaust film’ Jose Munoz ‘The autoethnographic performance: reading Richard Fung’s queer hybridity’ 4. Queer Bodies and Histories Peter Dickinson ‘Space, time, auteurity and the queer male body: the film adaptations of Robert Lepage’ James Tweedie ‘The suspended spectacle of history: the tableau vivant in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio’ Chris Straayer ‘The She-man: postmodern bi-sexed performance in film and video’ 5. The Boys Don’t Cry Debate Michele Aaron ‘Pass/fail’ Julianne Pidduck ‘Risk and queer spectatorship’ Patricia White ‘Girls still cry’ Judith Halberstam ‘The transgender gaze in Boys Don’t Cry’ Lisa Henderson ‘The class character of Boys Don’t Cry’ Jennifer Devere Brody ‘Boyz Do Cry: screening history’s white lies’