"Far From Heaven" (2002) was a commercially successful film that straddled the boundary between independent and mainstream art. The first Todd Haynes film to gain cultural and critical recognition, "Far From Heaven" was nominated for four Oscars and knowingly invoked an homage to the films of Douglas Sirk. This book is the first full-length study of a key text in American independent cinema, reading "Far From Heaven"'s rich and seductive pleasures via authorship, genre, postmodernism, and queer theory. Glyn Davis situates the film within Haynes's eclectic career, the new queer cinema movement, and the history of American independent cinema.