Queer Popular Culture
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2016
XIII, 262 pages
978-1-349-29011-6 (ISBN)
Description
Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of queer 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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XIII, 262 p.
File size
6,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-349-29011-6 (9781349290116)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-29011-6
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
2007
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€26.74
The article will not be published
Person
Thomas Peele
is Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches graduate classes in cultural studies and rhetorical theory, and undergraduate classes in non-fiction writing and new media.
Content
Introduction; T.Peele Reading for It: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience; S.Liming New Queer White Trash Cinema; D.Cunningham Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films; S.Mowlabocus Straight Shooters and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World; Z.Trodd & C.Le Coney Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah's Arc; G.A.Yep & J.P.Elia Queer as Folk and the Spectacularisation of Gay Identity; G.Porfido Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture; A.Ziv Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style and Politics in The L Word; A.Dove-Viebahn All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley; C.Leaker Yaoi & M.McHarry Why (Not) Queer?: Ambivalence about 'Politics' and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan; T.He Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch; W.Hsu Ellen DeGeneres: Public Lesbian Number One; J.Reed Pushing the Boundaries of Basic Writing's Frontier: Using Media Representations of Gay Culture to Teach Basic Writers; L.Gray-Rosendale & K.Birnley From Lavender Jane Loves Women to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: On the Uses of Queer Culture in the Interdisciplinary Classroom; D.DeMuth & S.Barnes
