Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture - Brossura

Doty, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0816622450 ISBN 13: 9780816622450

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1993

Riassunto

As a concept, "queerness" describes a cultural common ground between gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and other non-straights, but it also suggests a diverse and often uncategorizable cultural space that is everywhere in mass culture. Whether recognized or denied, queerness is an approach to mass culture that is shared by people with every kind of sexual self-definition. 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. Doty demonstrates how queer readings can be - and are - performed 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 Arzner, and genres like the musical. In developing these readings, 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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Book by Doty Alexander

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0816622450
• ISBN 13: 9780816622450
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 146