ISBN:
9780739180280
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (200 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer Media Images : LGBT Perspectives
DDC:
306.76/6
Keywords:
Sexual minorities in mass media
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives comprises 15 articles that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection of articles focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Queer Images; Chapter One: Focus on the SpongeBob; Chapter Two: The Complex Relationship Between (and Within) the Oppressed and the Empowered; Chapter Three: Family Perfection; Chapter Four: Revisiting Vito Russo's The Celluloid Closet; Chapter Five: To Glee or Not to Glee; Part II: Performances of Sexuality and Gender; Chapter Six: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look; Chapter Seven: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation; Chapter Eight: Queer Male TV Commentators; Part III: Living in the Margins
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Nine: The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of VoiceChapter Ten: "Born This Way"; Chapter Eleven: First But (Nearly) Forgotten; Part IV: Queer Issues; Chapter Twelve: "Is She a Man? Is She a Transvestite?"; Chapter Thirteen: The Commercial Closet; Chapter Fourteen: Should We Stop Believin'?; Chapter Fifteen: "The Play's the Thing"; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Editors; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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