Queer Love in Film and Television

Critical Essays
2012. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-27296-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and television programs play with, imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative conventions so common in Western culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demory, Pamela

Pullen, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen PART I: ROMANCE 1. The Living End, or, Love Without a Future; Damon R. Young 2. Bad Boys Need Love, Too: The Cinematic Negativity of Gay Romance in I Love You Phillip Morris; Kenneth Chan 3. Romancing the Soap: Representations of Gay Love and Relationships in EastEnders; Peri Bradley 4. Love's Narrative Lost: Romance Interrupted in The L Word; Kathleen Brown and Brett Westbrook 5. "It's Not So Easy For Two Men to Be a Couple': Revisiting Gay Dating in Will & Grace and Queer as Folk; Ben Aslinger 6. True Love Queered: Sex, Melodrama, and Romance in Queer as Folk; Pamela Demory PART II: MARRIAGE AND FAMILY 7. Donor Conception in Lesbian and Non-Lesbian Film and Television Families; Julia Erhart 8. Housebroken: Homodomesticity and the Normalization of Queerness in Modern Family; Steven Edward Doran 9. Family Guys: Same-Sex Parenting and Masculinity in Modern Family; Peter C. Kunze 10. Allegories of Queer Love: Quality Television and the Reimagining of the American Family; Jessica Murrell and Hannah Stark 11. 'Queer' (In)tolerance in Children's Animated Films; Richard D. Reitsma PART III: THE MARGINS 12. 'Fearless Vulgarity:' Camp Love as Queer Love for Jackie Susann and Valley of the Dolls; Ken Feil 13. 'Can I Get An 'Amen'?' Marginalized Communities and Self-Love on Ru-Paul's Drag Race; Jessica Hicks 14. Trans Love in New Trans Cinema; Nicole Richter 15. No Skin Off My Ass: Bruce LaBruce and the Curious Case of Queer Punk Love; Curran NAult 16. Queer Negotiations Between Love and Work: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study of a Gay Porn Star; Michael Johnson Jr. 17. Playing With Himself: James Franco, Hollywood Queer; Adrian Jones PART IV: ADAPTING QUEERLY 18. Temporality and Queer Consciousness in The House of Mirth; Jim Ellis 19. The Talented Mr. Ripley: A '50s Homme Fatal for the New Millennium; Scott F. Stoddart 20. Ford's A Single Man and Bachardy's Chris and Don: The Aesthetic and Domestic Body of Isherwood; Christopher Pullen 21. Notes on a Scandal, Teacher's Edition; Adam Sonstegard 22. The Ethics of Alterity: Adapting Queerness in Brokeback Mountain; Matthew Bolton

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Aslinger, Bentley University, USA
Matthew Bolton, Concordia College-New York, USA
Kathleen A. Brown, St. Edward's University, USA
Peri Bradley, Bournemouth University, UK
Kenneth Chan, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Steven Edward Doran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jim Ellis, University of Calgary, Canada
Julia Erhart, Flinders University, Australia
Ken Feil, Emerson College, USA
Jessica Hicks, Independent Scholar
Michael Johnson Jr., Washington State University, USA
Adrian Jones, University of Sydney, Australia
Peter C. Kunze, Louisiana State University, USA
Jessica Murrell, University of Adelaide, Australia
Curran Nault, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Richard Reitsma, Canisius College, USA
Nicole Richter, Wright State University, USA
Adam Sonstegard, Cleveland State University, USA
Hannah Stark, University of Tasmania, Australia
Scott F. Stoddart, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, USA
Brett Westbrook, Independent Scholar
Damon Young, University of California, Berkeley, USA