Little Joe
Little Joe
The cult periodical Little Joe, published as a limited-edition zine from 2010 to
2021, challenged the mainstream narrative of film history with a rebel,
queer perspective. Rather than reviewing new releases, it explored forgotten and
overlooked films and celebrated a diverse spectrum of cinema – from obscure art
films to porn to Hollywood classics – as worthy of critical debate. Stubbornly
print-only, Little Joe was notoriously hard to find, privileging word-of-mouth
distribution akin to the films it championed. This volume, compiled by
editor-in-chief Sam Ashby, brings together the best of his previously elusive
texts and propositions a new, alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of
taste and style. 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, AL Steiner, AK Burns, Desiree Akhavan, and Andrew Haigh.
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