Queer Love in Film and Television

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Critical Essays

ISBN: 1137272961
ISBN 13: 9781137272966
Autor: Demory, Pamela/Pullen, Christopher
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 277 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.04.2013
Auflage: 1/2013
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

GROWING AREA OF RESEARCH: There is a growing range of historical and critical examinations of gay and lesbian representation in the media BROAD LOOK AT QUEER LOVE: This volume investigates the idea of ‘queer love,’ broadly speaking, analyzing how depictions have changed and how attitudes have shifted at the same timeSTRONG THEORETICAL BACKGROUND: The essays are grounded in theory, and are exploring questions about the meaning of big ideas like ‘love’ and ‘queer’ and ‘family’ and ‘romance’ and ‘identity,’ the book is establishing a theoretical groundwork in these concepts that future scholars can build onHOT TOPIC: With same-sex marriage now legal or being actively debated in many states within the U.S. and in many countries around the world, now is the time to take a critical look at how gay and lesbian love is represented in film and television

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Beschreibung

Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and television programs play with, imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative conventions so common in Western culture.

Autorenporträt

Ben Aslinger, Bentley University, USA Matthew Bolton, Concordia College-New York, USA Kathleen A. Brown, St. Edward's University, USA Peri Bradley, Bournemouth University, UK Kenneth Chan, University of Northern Colorado, USA Steven Edward Doran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Jim Ellis, University of Calgary, Canada Julia Erhart, Flinders University, Australia Ken Feil, Emerson College, USA Jessica Hicks, Independent Scholar Michael Johnson Jr., Washington State University, USA Adrian Jones, University of Sydney, Australia Peter C. Kunze, Louisiana State University, USA Jessica Murrell, University of Adelaide, Australia Curran Nault, University of Texas at Austin, USA Richard Reitsma, Canisius College, USA Nicole Richter, Wright State University, USA Adam Sonstegard, Cleveland State University, USA Hannah Stark, University of Tasmania, Australia Scott F. Stoddart, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, USA Brett Westbrook, Independent Scholar Damon Young, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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