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It traces Haynes’s rise from short films to Poison, highlighting controversy sparked by Reverend Donald Wildmon and the American Family Association, and how that campaign reshaped public attention. The discussion situates Haynes within the “New Queer Cinema,” examines narrative and character experimentation in Superstar and Poison, and outlines thematic concerns about pop icons, ideology, and audience identification.","# Cinematic/Sexual Transgression:An Interview with Todd Haynes\n\nAuthor(s):Justin Wyatt and Todd Haynes  \nSource:Film Quarterly,Vol.46,No.3(Spring,1993),pp.2-8  \nPublished by:University of California Press  \nStable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/1212898  \nAccessed:22/06/201015:21  \nYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use,available athttp://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp.JSTOR's Terms andConditions of Use provides,in part,that unlessyou have obtained prior permission,you may not download an entire issue of ajournal or multiple copies of articles,and youmay use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal,non-commercial use.  \nPlease contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work.Publisher contact information may be obtained athttp://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucal.  \nEach copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printedpage of such transmission.  \nJSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars,researchers,and students discover,use,and build upon a wide range ofcontent in a trusted digital archive.We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new formsof scholarship.For more information about JSTOR,please contact support@jstor.org.  \nD  \nirector Todd Haynes'fame rests onthe cult status of his short film Superstar:The KarenCarpenter Story and on the Grand Jury prize at the1991 Sundance Film Festival for his first feature,Poison.While these works are exciting and un-compromising,Haynes is probably better knownwithin the mainstream press for the controversysurrounding therelease of Poison:Reverend DonaldWildmon and his American Family Associationlaunched a campaign against the National Endow-ment for the Arts based,in part,on Haynes’film,which had received a small completion grant fromthe NEA.Influenced by a misleading review inVariety and without having seen the film,Wildmoncondemned Poison as pornography,in the processcreating unexpected publicity for the film and prob-ably leading to wider distribution than it mightotherwise have had.  \n# Cinematic/Sexual\n\nAn Interview  \nThe name recognition,controversy,and thepower of the film itself have all contributed tomaking Todd Haynes one of the major proponentsof the\"New Queer Cinema,\"a term coined ina 1992Village Voice piece by B.Ruby Rich to describe therenaissance in gay and lesbian film-making repre-sented by Haynes,Jennie Livingston(ParisIsBurn-ing),Gus Van Sant(My Own Private Idaho),TomKalin(Swoon),Gregg Araki(The Living End),andLaurie Lynd(R.S.V.P.),among others.  \nnervosa.Filmed entirely with a cast of Barbie andKen dolls,the film moves from being aminiaturizedstar story to a moving depiction of a young womanoverwhelmed by her family and patriarchal struc-tures.The film problematizes character identifica-tion:while the audience may initially laugh at thefamily drama enacted by dolls,it is ultimatelywrenched—by the death of a Barbie doll from aneating disorder.On another level,Haynes is inter-ested in investigating the ideological power of popicons,and,in fact,invokes the most saccharineicons of the 1960s and 1970s,Karen and RichardCarpenter,placing them amidst an array of othericons from the same period (Dionne Warwick,theBrady Bunch,and Olivia Newton-John,amongothers).Legal injunctions from the Carpenter fam-ily halted distribution of the film,although it has astrong life in the underground and remains a cultfavorite.  \nAfter graduating from Brown University's pro-gram in Art/Semiotics in 1985,Haynes co-foundedApparatus Productions with Barry Ellsworth andChristine Vachon(producer of both Poison andSwoon).Apparatus Productions was set up to chan-nel grants to emerging film-makers who were notwell served by the traditional funding sources.AsHaynes comments,“We wanted to preserve theform of short film-making,and make it somethingreally exciting that wasn't j","cbCaigDEgRFUGNWz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigDEgRFUGNWz","pdf",1552249,3,1,8,"English","en",105,"# Cinematic/Sexual Transgression\n## An Interview with Todd Haynes\n## Context: New Queer Cinema and controversies\n## Superstar and Poison: themes and narrative experiments\n## Future direction: Safe","[{\"question\":\"Why did the film Poison become controversial?\",\"answer\":\"Poison was condemned by Reverend Donald Wildmon and the American Family Association, who criticized the film as pornography after a misleading Variety review. 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