Little Joe : a book about queers and cinema, mostly / edited by Sam Ashby.

[London?] : SPBH Editions, 2024.

512 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Statement of responsibility from page 512.

Printed on yellow, purple, or green paper.

"This volume features essays, in-depth conversations, short stories and archival discoveries from a host of queer and allied writers, artists, filmmakers, and academics, including John Waters, Sarah Schulman, Douglas Crimp, William E. Jones, Erika Balsom, Jeremy Atherton Lin, John Greyson, Elizabeth Purchell, Liz Rosenfeld, Peter Strickland, Ira Sachs, Terence Davies, Shu Lea Cheang, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Abdellah Taïa, Marlene McCarty, John Cameron Mitchell, Rosa von Praunheim, Stuart Comer, Ed Halter, Jenni Olson, A.L. Steiner, A.K. Burns, Desiree Akhavan, and Andrew Haigh."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.

(from table of contents) 'Little Joe', big little magazine / Erika Balsom -- 'Little Joe''s holes: an interview with Sam Ashby, editor of 'Little Joe' / Jeremy Atherton Lin -- Hollywood hallucinations: Parker Tyler, Myra Breckinridge and Mae West / James Boaden -- The streets are my cinema / William E. Jones -- The queer history of 'Films and filming' / Justin Bengry -- In his own words: Edward Owens / Ed Halter -- Facing 'Taylor Mead's ass' / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Three's company / Ara Osterweil -- Cocks & cunts: Barbara Rubin and the New York underground / Ron Gregg -- On the set of 'Who killed Teddy Bear' / Kevin Killian -- In praise of Andy Milligan / Stephen Thrower -- 'A bigger splash': an interview with Jack Hazan / Hynam Kendall -- The devil and Derek Jarman / Sam Ashby -- Searching for senators and sailors: the limited editions of Kenneth Anger / Erika Balsom -- Nowhere home: Radical gay rurality in 'Song of the loon' / Ryan Powell -- Fred Halsted / William E. Jones -- 'Born to raise hell': an interview with Roger Earl / Jonesy -- George Kuchar / Ed Halter -- The fleshy fantasies of Mike Kuchar / Johnny Ray Huston -- Curt McDowell's 'Loads' / William E. Jones -- jewboy bottom wants bavarian daddy, thick cock, heavy balls, meet here weekday afternoons / Marc Siegel -- Back to the toilet: an interview with Frank Ripploh -- Papa Rosa: an interview with Rosa von Praunheim / Adam Keleman -- Playback queens with broken dreams / Bradford Nordeen -- Dressed to kill: lifting the shirt on Gere, Pacino and cinematic masculinity circa 1980 / Stuart Henderson -- 'Fast trip, long drop' / Jon Davies -- Marlene McCarty / Carl Williamson -- An intergenerational dialogue on HIV/AIDS activist video history / Ryan Conrad and John Greyson -- Get to work: ACT UP for everyone / E.C. Feiss -- Back in the night / Scott Ewalt -- 'BloodSisters': leather, dykes and sadomasochism / Black Venus -- Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe: a promise of queer-feminist revolution / Andrey Shental -- John Waters / Stuart Comer -- David DeCoteau / Ryan Linkof -- Renters / Jeremy Atherton Lin -- Andrew Haigh / Sam Ashby -- Abdellah Taïa / Hedi El Kholti -- /Community action center': an interview with A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner / Lauren Cornell -- Tape condition degraded: queer porn archives and the digital afterlives of VHS / Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer -- A queer commitment: an in-between generation making films in Berlin / Liz Rosenfeld -- Desiree Akhavan / Sam Ashby -- Reclaiming orgasm data: an interview with Shu Lea Cheang / Liz Rosenfeld -- Queer darkness / Zach Blas and Cassils -- Video library -- Visual and other pleasures -- Contributors -- Index of films.