LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media
Published on 1. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVIII, 313 pages
978-1-349-33674-6 (ISBN)
Description
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.
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Edition
1st ed. 2012
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
XVIII, 313 p.
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-33674-6 (9781349336746)
DOI
10.1057/9780230373310
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Christopher Pullen
LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media
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Palgrave Macmillan
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REBECCA BEIRNELecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia
SAHAR BLUCKworks in production for a creative advertising agency
PERI BRADLEY Associate Lecturer in Film and TV at Southampton Solent University and University of Southampton, UK
CUNYET CAKIRLAR Research Associate in the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK
MARGARET COOPER Sociologist at Southern Illinois University, USA
BRUCE DRUSHELAssistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Miami University, USA
SERKAN ERTIN Currently teaching at the Western Languages and Literatures Department, Kocaeli University, Turkey
DANIEL FARRIndependent Scholar living and working in Lynchburg, USA
JENNIFER GAUTHIERAssociate Professor of Communication Studies at Randolph College in Virginia, USA
SAMAR HABIB Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley's Beatrice Bain Research Group and a visiting Professor at San Francisco State, USA
DAVID OSCAR HARVEYPhD candidate in the department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA
ANDREW HOCK SOON NGSenior Lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Malaysia
JASON HO KA-HANGTeaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong
KATE HOULDENPhD graduate in the English Department of Queen Mary, University of London, UK
STEPHANIE SELVICKPhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Miami, Florida, USA
GUSTAVO SUBEROSenior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Coventry University, UK
RICHARD REITSMAAssistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA
BRYCE J. RENNINGERPhD candidate in the Media Studies program at Rutgers University, USA
ERNST VAN DER WALLecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Content
List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Introduction; C.Pullen PART I: POLITICS & CITIZENSHIP LGBT Transnational Documentary 'Becoming'; C.Pullen Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television; S.Habib & R.Beirne Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom?; S.Bluck Sub-Sahara African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness; D.O.Harvey The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Post-Apartheid Identities; E.Van Der Wal The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage; M.Cooper The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api; A.Hock Soon Ng PART II: ADAPTATION & POST COLONIAL TRANSITIONS Queer (Im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian Building; S.Selvick Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the 'Leading Aberrant': Early Gay Narratives in the British Media; K.Houlden The Exotic Erotic: Queer Representations in the context of post-colonial ethnicity on British TV; P.Bradley Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in Khush and Happy Hookers; B.J.Renninger Screening Queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush; D.Farr & J.Gauthier PART III: PERFORMANCE & SUBJECTIVITY Gay pornography as Latin American queer his/toriography; G.Subero Quo Vadis, Queer Vato? Queer and Loathing in Latino Cinema; R.Reitsma Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutlug Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001); C.Çakirlar The Drag Queers the S/He Binary: Subversion of Heteronormativity in Turkish Context; S.Eertin If Art Imitated Reality: George Takei, Coming Out, And The Insufferably Straight Star Trek Universe; B.E.Drushel A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye; J.Ho Ka-Hang Index