Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOverall, Feeling Normal provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field. This book will serve those interested in cultural studies, media studies, and LGBTQ studies well.
* Critical Studies in Media Communication *
"Offers a piercing examination of modern identity politics focused on relationships among new forms of media consumption and marketplaces, urban centers, and the experiences of sexual minorities. ... Feeling Normal is a must-read for scholars and students in queer studies and communication, media studies, film studies, and sociology."
* Choice Reviews *
"Altogether, Griffin's analysis provides a pathway for understanding how gay and lesbian media, including films like Elena Undone, can make LGBTQ people feel normal. Furthermore, he underlines the importance of these feelings for identifying media's discursive role in constructing the boundaries of gay and lesbian citizenship."
* Mobile Media & Communication *
Griffin offers a compelling analysis of how sexual desire and identity are created, circulated, and consumed in contemporary media culture... [The book] provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field.
* Critical Studies in Media Communication *
There are certain scholars and critics who have a knack for combining a theoretically rich analysis of a varied archive with a distinctive voice. Griffin is one of those. While never lacking in rigor or scholarly address, the book does have moments of genuine humor, when it is clear that Griffin understands the ironic posture that many queer people take toward the media that they consume. As such, Feeling Normal, while scholarly in outlook and perspective, is actually a pleasure to read.
* Information, Communication, & Society *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Cities as Affective Convergences
2. The Aesthetics of Banality After New Queer Cinema
3. Commodity Activism and Corporate Synergy on Cable TV
4. Toward an Actually Queer Criticism of Television
5. Wanting Something Online
Afterword: #LoveWins
Selected Bibliography
Index
