{"product_id":"love-is-love-is-love-9781032329475","title":"Love Is Love Is Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. \u003ci\u003eLove Is Love Is Love\u003c\/i\u003e looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough analyses of \u003ci\u003ePromises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFrozen\u003c\/i\u003e, this book attempts to move past the question of representational\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003epolitics and asks us instead to think in more complex ways about LGBTQ identity, what LGBTQ politics are, and the politics of Broadway musicals themselves. Producing new, complex readings of all five of these musicals, author Aaron C. Thomas places each of them within the context of the LGBTQ politics of their day. Some of the issues the book treats are controversies of casting, the closetedness and openness of musical theatre, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Shut Up and Deal 2. It Gets Better Than Boyhood 3. A Gender of One, a Sexuality of Many 4. All My Life I Had to Fight 5. Frozen Eleganza\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018981114199,"sku":"9781032329475","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032329475.jpg?v=1750778901","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-is-love-is-love-9781032329475","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}