Description |
xii, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. The Gaze Revisited, Or Reviewing Queer Viewing / Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman -- 2. Black Lesbian Spectatorship and Pleasure in Popular Cinema / Z. Isiling Nataf -- 3. The Gay Gaze, Or Why I Want My MTV / Steven Drukman -- 4. La Belle Dame Sans Merci? / Tanya Krzywinska -- 5. Just a Gigolo? Narcissism, Nellyism and the 'New Man' Theme / Paul Burston -- 6. The Transgressive Sexual Subject / Cherry Smyth -- 7. We're Here, We're Queer and We're Not Going Catalogue Shopping / Gregory Woods -- 8. Monika Treut: An Outlaw at Home / Colin Richardson -- 9. The Wild, Wild World of Fanzines: Notes from a Reluctant Pornographer / Bruce LaBruce -- 10. 'By Women, for Women and About Women' Rules OK? The Impossibility of Visual Soliloquy / Anna Marie Smith -- 11. TVOD: The Never-Bending Story / Colin Richardson |
Summary |
In a collection that is in-yer-face but never out-to-lunch, the contributors variously visit debates about the gaze to provide a new theory of Queer viewing; discuss texts coded as queer - from lesbian vampires to Hollywood's use of gay codes in mainstream films such as Top Gun and Black Widow; discover whether Sandra Bernhard is really 'a black man masquerading as a Jewish dominatrix'; consider the sexual and cultural narratives at play in the world of home shopping catalogues; explore the pleasures and perils of gay cultural production, from the radically queer film-making of Monika Treut to the wild world of homocore fanzines, and address the possibilities of texts claiming to be for the gay spectator - from pornography 'by women, for women and about women' to 'Out' TV. The contributors to A Queer Romance don't all agree, but, taken together, the collection argues strongly that everyone can have their queer moments |
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It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilities of popular culture for lesbians and gay men |
Analysis |
Homosexuality |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264) and index |
Subject |
Gays in popular culture.
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Homosexuality and art.
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Homosexuality and literature.
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Homosexuality -- Public opinion.
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Author |
Burston, Paul, 1965-
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Richardson, Colin, 1959-
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LC no. |
94010783 |
ISBN |
0203990943 (ebook) |
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0415096170 (hbk) |
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0415096189 (paperback) |
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