Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Coordinator University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first in-depth study of how lesbian bars are depicted in popular culture. THE GIRLS IN THE BACK ROOM: Looking at the Lesbian Bar Kelly Hankin University of Minnesota Press | 248 pages | 20 halftones | 2002 ISBN 0-8166-3928-0 | hardcover | $52.95 ISBN 0-8166-3929-9 | paperback | $18.95 The lesbian bar has long been seen as a mysterious place, steeped in mythologies of clandestine meetings and sexuality that is alluring because it is wayward and sinful. Kelly Hankin focuses on the lesbian bar, looking at how it is portrayed in such films as Foxy Brown, The Killing of Sister George, Basic Instinct, Bound, and Chasing Amy; in television series like The Simpsons, Xena: Warrior Princess, Roseanne, Ellen, and Sex and the City; and in independent, lesbian-produced documentaries. For more information, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/hankin_girls.html ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite