Emanuel Levy has had a prestigious career as a senior critic at Variety, professor of film and sociology, and jury member at fifty-four international film festivals. His exhaustive account of the careers of five gay male auteurs is peppered with quotes from his own interviews with them. This awfully titled book may frustrate some readers, including Levy's peers in screen studies, to whom it will seem slight. Film buffs fond of these directors are probably familiar with much of what's on offer here. For the 'general reader', the book is a breezy introduction to questions of 'gay' cinema; but as an introduction it fails to position these careers in the broader universe of queer representation, and it all but ignores non-white directors and women.