Queer Popular Culture Literature, Media, Film, and Television

Name: Queer Popular Culture Literature, Media, Film, and Television
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ISBN: 9780230105591

ISBN-10: 0230105599

ISBN-13: 9780230105591

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas Peele, Thomas Peele

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This exciting collection brings together work from several disciplines that addresses the politics of queer representation in global contexts. The articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sense of the problems and promise of queer pop culture.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 262
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Popular Culture, Queer Culture




The Three Phases of Ellen: From Queer to Gay to Postgay




Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah's Arc




All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley




Queer as Folk and the Spectacularization of Gay Identity




Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and Politics in The L Word




ï¿½Reading for Itï¿½: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience




Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch




Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture




Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films




Straight Shooters, Stainless-Steel Stories, and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World




New Queer White Trash Cinema




Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West




Why (not) Queer?: Ambivalence about ï¿½Politicsï¿½ and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan




Reconfiguring Differences: Radicalizing Popular Culture Pedagogy




Queering Harry Potter



Index