Ebook: Midnight Cowboy

Re-examining a Hollywood classic as proto-queer buddy movie and portrait of male friendship.

An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon Towlson argues for a new interpretation of the film as a proto-queer buddy movie and portrait of a friendship.