Queer Popular Culture Literature, Media, Film, and Television

by Peele, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781403974907
• ISBN10: 140397490X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Queer Popular Culture is an exciting new collection that brings together work from several disciplines that address queer representation in multiple contexts. The articles cover many aspects of contemporary U.S. and international queer culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness, and work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities. Other essays address queer representations from soap operas to gangster films. The book also includes a pedagogical section that addresses the use of queer concepts in the classroom

Author Biography

Thomas Peele is Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches non-fiction writing, rhetorical theory, and cultural studies. 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Reading for It: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience

New Queer White Trash Cinema

Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films

Straight Shooters and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World

Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah’s Arc

Queer as Folk and the Spectacularisation of Gay Identity

Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture

Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style and Politics in The L Word

All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley

Yaoi

Why (Not) Queer?: Ambivalence about “Politics” and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan

Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Ellen DeGeneres: Public Lesbian Number One

Pushing the Boundaries of Basic Writing’s Frontier: Using Media Representations of Gay Culture to Teach Basic Writers

From Lavender Jane Loves Women to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: On the Uses of Queer Culture in the Interdisciplinary Classroom

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