“In Marc Francis’s well-researched and robustly imagined <i>Curating Deviance</i>, art-house revival has found both a cultural history and curatorial rationale that goes beyond nostalgia. With a theorist’s acuity and a cinephile’s affection, Francis reframes stories of imaginative curators and programmers who transformed the movie calendar into a renegade syllabus of maverick desire.”—Tavia Nyong'o, William Lampson Professor of American Studies, Yale University<br /><br />“Witty, theoretically astute, and rigorously researched, <i>Curating Deviance</i> opens new theories of intertextual signification through close reading of ‘promiscuous programming’ in late-twentieth-century repertory and art houses. Francis’s prose is accessible enough for undergraduates, and his arguments will satisfy and surprise seasoned exhibition and queer cinema historians alike.”—Caetlin Benson-Allott, author of <i>The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television</i>