Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture

Alexander Doty

ISBN 10: 0816622450 / ISBN 13: 9780816622450

Published by University of Minnesota Press, 1993

About this Item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xix/146 pages. "In "Making Things Perfectly Queer," Alexander Doty argues that films, television, and other forms of mass culture consistently elicit a wide range of queer responses, and suggests a framework for interpreting mass culture that stands as a corrective for many standard cultural approaches. By examining star images like Jack Benny and Pee-Wee Herman, women-centered sitcoms like "Laverne and Shirley" and "Designing Women," film directors like George Cukor and Dorothy Azner, and genres like the musical, Doty demonstrates how popular culture can be interpreted from a queer perspective. Ultimately, he suggests that queerness, not straightness, just might be the most pervasive sexual dynamic at work in mass culture production and reception.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816622450
• ISBN 13: 9780816622450
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Doty argues that films, television, and other forms of mass culture consistently elicit a wide range of queer (sexually liminal) responses, and suggests an interpretive framework for understanding mass culture that stands as a corrective to many standard cultural approaches.

About the Author

Alexander Doty teaches film and mass culture in the English department at Lehigh University He is the author of articles on film, mass culture, and queer studies, and is currently coediting an anthology on lesbian, gay, and queer mass culture theory and criticism.