Queer (Un)Friendly Film and Television - Softcover

Keller, James R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786412461 ISBN 13: 9780786412464

Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2002

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Book by Keller James R

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"a thought-provoking read...must have...Keller's tome will be a reference you will want to thumb through the next time you take the DVD off the shelf--or it may compel you to do so"--Scarlett; "Keller ably employs current theories of men's studies to critique several films, exposing the ongoing myths, typing, and homophobia they reveal in our culture"--Reference & Research Book News.

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This work studies recent cinematic and television depictions of gays and lesbians. It examines the gay male conversion fantasy in Get Real, Beautiful Thing, I Think I Do, and Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, the aging artist as teacher to young gay men in Love and Death on Long Island and Gods and Monsters, gay violence in Shakespeare and The Talented Mr. Ripley, unacknowledged homophobia and theories of traditional masculinity in Gladiator, the human genome project and screening for the gene associated with homosexuality in Twilight of the Golds, profanity and protest masculinity in The Usual Suspects, the controversy arising when the cast of Will & Grace urged Californians to vote against the Knight Initiative refusing recognition to same-sex marriages, male egotism in Flawless, gay parenting and other family issues in The Birdcage, The Object of My Affection, and The Next Best Thing, and rehabilitating homophobia in American Beauty, Urbania, Oz, Kiss Me Guido, Chuck & Buck, and Billy Elliot.

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• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0786412461
• ISBN 13: 9780786412464
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222