Ryan Murphy's Queer America

ISBN-13: 9780367772291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 278 str.

Brenda R. Weber; David Greven

Opis

This collection examines the creative output of Ryan Murphy, considering the gendered and sexual politics of his diverse body of work and impact on modern American society. Suitable for students in Gender or Media Studies.

 

Spis treści

Introduction: Touching Queerness: Ryan Murphy’s Queer America, 1."Posing Normality? The Televisual and the Queer, The New Normal and Pose", 2. "You’re Sexual, Right?": Ryan Murphy and the Eroticization of Straight Masculinity, 3. Hagsploitation: or the Queer Sublimity of Feud: Bette and Joan, 4. "American Twink Story", 5. Remediating the 90s with Ryan Murphy: Gender, Race and (Inter)Generational Cultural Politics in The People Vs. OJ Simpson, 6. What if Golden Age Hollywood had been Inclusive?: Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood as Queer Utopian Uchronia, 7. The Weight of Queer Emptiness: The Politician and Twenty-First Century Queerness, 8. "Rescuing Paternity: Masculinity, The Child, and Queer Futurity in 9-1-1", 9. Into the Gleetocracy: The Contours and Contradictions of a Queered American Dream, 10. "Normal?: The Normal Heart in Abnormal Times", 11. "‘I Always Knew I Wasn't Gonna Be Long on This Earth,’ Pose and the AIDS Crisis", 12. Memorial Acts: Remembering Mart Crowley and The Boys in the Band, 13. The End of "Best Actor" Discourse?: Pose and the Queer of Color Politics of Casting Trans Roles, 14. Fused Muse: Sarah Paulson as Ryan Murphy’s Partner in (American) Crime, 15. "Showrunning Activism:　Embodying Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Work of Ryan Murphy"