Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Lesbian & gay studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030433488X ISBN 13: 9780304334889

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1995

Synopsis

Out in Culture "Out in Culture" charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments, of mass culture. The essays collected here, combining critical and theoretical works from a cross-section of academics, journalists, and artists, demonstrate a rich variety of gay and lesbian approaches to film, television, popu... Full description

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Synopsis:

This accessible volume charts some of the ways in which we have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments of mass culture. Topics include the queer careers of Agnes Moorehead and Pee Wee Herman to the cultural politics of lesbian style, the visualization of AIDS and the black snap! queer experience; and two special dossiers on the queer content of Hitchcock films and the production and reception of popular music. This work also contains an extensive bibliography. Contributors include such writers as B. Ruby Rich and Essex Hemphill as well as critics including Richard Dyer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 030433488X
• ISBN 13: 9780304334889
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544
• Editor: Creekmur Corey K., Doty Alexander