Queer Popular Culture Literature, Media, Film, and Television
Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of queer representations of blackness. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sens
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Queer Popular Culture
Queer Popular Culture Literature, Media, Film, and Television
EDITED BY THOMAS PEELE
ISBN 978-0-230-10586-7 ISBN 978-1-349-29011-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-29011-6 QUEER POPULAR CULTURE
Copyright © Thomas Peele, 2007, 2011. Reprint of the original edition 2011 All rights reserved. First published in hardcover in 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–10559–1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Queer Popular Culture / literature, media, film, and television / Edited by Thomas Peele.—Trade paperback. p. cm. ISBN 978–0–230–10559–1 (pbk.) 1. Gays in popular culture. 2. Homosexuality on television. 3. Homosexuality in motion pictures. 4. Culture in motion pictures. 5. Gays in popular culture. I. Peele, Thomas B. PN1992.8.H64Q44 2011 306.76⬘6—dc22
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Contents List of Figures
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List of Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Popular Culture, Queer Culture Thomas Peele
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1. The Three Phases of Ellen: From Queer to Gay to Postgay Jennifer Reed
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2. Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah’s Arc Gust A. Yep and John P. Elia 3. All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley Cathy Leaker 4. Queer as Folk and the Spectacularization of Gay Identity Giovanni Porfido
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5. Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and Politics in The L Word Aviva Dove-Viebahn
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6. “Reading for It”: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience Sheila Liming
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7. Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch Wendy Hsu 8. Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture Amalia Ziv
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9. Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films Sharif Mowlabocus 10. Straight Shooters, Stainless-Steel Stories, and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World Christopher Le Coney and Zoe Trodd
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11. New Queer White Trash Cinema Daniel Mudie Cunningham
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12. Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West Mark McHarry
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13. Why (not) Queer?: Ambivalence about “Politics” and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan Terri He
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14. Reconfiguring Differenc
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