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Book SynopsisLocating Queerness in the Media: A New Look delves deep into an understanding of queer sensibility. This collection examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the media existence of queer people, ranging from tragic to villainous.
Trade ReviewLocating Queerness in the Media is a collection of smart essays that reckon with the hopes and frustrations queer people bring to LGBTQ media. Wide-ranging in their objects of analysis, the essays tackle contemporary media forms to ask tough questions about power, pleasure, and the politics of identity. The essays yield provocative yet careful insights into some of the most enduring issues in the field. -- F. Hollis Griffin, Denison University
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli Part I: Perspectives on Queerness and Media 1. Locating Queerness in the Media: Markers of a Queer-Centric Approach to Studying Media Theresa Carilli 2. A State of the Union: LGBTQ Representations and the Concept of Community Bruce E. Drushel Part II: Locating Queerness in Television and Music 3. Homophobic Tropes, Class Structure, and Queer Sexuality: Problematizing Downton Abbey’s “Hot Gay Villain” Stephanie L. Young 4. Relishing the Contradictions: The Intentionality of Black-ish Judy L. Isaksen 5. Bulldykes Don’t Dance: Hand-me-down Homophobia and Racism in Orange is the New Black Collette Morrow 6. Grace and Frankie’s “Armagayddon”: Coming Out after 50 in the New Millennium Lori L. Montalbano 7. True Niggaz Ain’t Quare: An Examination of Black Gay Male Rappers and Hip-Hop Authenticity Melvin L. Williams and Verdell A. Wright Part III: Locating Queerness in Trans-Texts 8. Transitioning Stories about Transitioning Genders: Tracing Generic Forms and Their Implications in Trans Autobiographies Erika M. Thomas 9. Being a Trans Woman & Being with a Trans Woman in Turkish Erotic Stories: Desire as Sites of Regulation Ali E. Erol Part IV: Locating Queerness in Film 10. Suffocation and Desire: The Children’s Hour and Carol Jane Campbell 11. Moving Images & Affectivities: The Multiple Subjectivities of Madame Behave Jamie A. Lee 12. A Delicate Balance: Queer Masculinities in Contemporary Brazilian Film Simone Cavalcante Da Silva Selected Bibliography About the Editors and Contributors
