Montreal Main: A Queer Film Classic

Description

One of three new Queer Film Classics to be published in late 2010, Montreal Main considers the brilliant yet neglected 1974 Canadian film set in Montreal's bohemian neighbourhood 'The Main' and hailed at its premiere at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The movie, directed by and starring Frank Vitale, is both a great indie film and a great queer film: a fascinating cinema v rit take on North American social mores and relationships in the 1970s. It tells of a 20-something photographer living among the outcasts, junkies and artists populating the Main.

Thomas Waugh: Thomas Waugh has teaches film studies at Concordia University, Montreal, where he has also developed curriculum in queer studies and on HIV/AIDS. He is the author of many publications on queer film and media, on Canadian film, on documentary and on the cinema of India. Jason Garrison: Jason Garrison is a Canadian writer.