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Part of the Australian Screen Classics series, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was commissioned by the series editor, Jane Mills for Currency Press and the National Film & Sound Archive. The book may not be for lovers of the film or for patriotic lovers of Australian film culture ... "How liberating to have a film full of mincing queens prancing across the charred central Australian landscape. How radical to throw up gay culture onto the big screen in the most mainstream limelight of cinema. How universal to have a film whose story reaches beyond sexual stereotypes. Such are the myths that strangle Priscilla like a feather boa caught in the mag wheel of the film's gloriously vulva-hating machinery. A perfect Australian film in so many respects, Priscilla beautifully swirls this country's sexual confusion, appropriated landscape, heroic delusions and colonial scars into a delirious dance of numbing normality. Freely interpreted this way, Priscilla becomes an otherworldly tale of silver colons, feminine stench, acidic voices and musical bile. Swallow it down whole."

195 pgs softback - available through Currency Press, Sydney

 

 

 

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