Queer Love in Film and Television: Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9781137272966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 277 str.

Pamela Demory; Christopher Pullen

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"The essays in this volume are compelling reading. Brief synopses of films and texts are worked, seamlessly, into the texts to familiarize readers with content that may be unfamiliar to them. In summary, the authors in this volume explore the varied ways in which contemporary film and television endeavor to incorporate nonheterogeneous normativities into their cultural productions, particularly as they relate to queer love. This is a smart read and a useful and accessible introduction to a rich and evolving field of study." - Journal of American Culture

"A varied and impressive collection of essays . . . This is a book for anyone interested in LGBTQ studies, queer theory, media criticism, or representations of non-heterosexual desires and relationships. Summing Up: Recommended." - CHOICE

"Influenced by the major queer theorists, the varied and provocative essays collected in Queer Love in Film and Television challenge our thinking about the ways in which gay and lesbian sex and love have been presented in film and on television over the past two decades, from Modern Family to The L Word, and from Brokeback Mountain to gay porn. Along the way, crucial questions are asked about the validity of conventional romantic narratives as vehicles for presenting queer relationships, and the possibility of queer love. " - John M. Clum, author of The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present (2011), Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture (2001), and Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama (2000)

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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