Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular CultureCorey K. Creekmur, Alexander Doty 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, popular music, and fashion. This wide-ranging anthology is the first to juxtapose pioneering work in gay and lesbian media criticism with recent essays in contemporary queer cultural studies. Uniquely accessible, Out in Culture presents such popular writers as B. Ruby Rich, Essex Hemphill, and Michael Musto as well as influential critics such as Richard Dyer, Chris Straayer, and Julia Lesage, on topics ranging from the queer careers of Agnes Moorehead and Pee Wee Herman to the cultural politics of gay drag, lesbian style, the visualization of AIDS, and the black snap! queen experience. Of particular interest are two "dossiers," the first linking essays on the queer content of Alfred Hitchcock's films, and the second on the production and reception of popular music within gay and lesbian communities. The volume concludes with an extensive bibliography--the most comprehensive currently available--of sources in gay, lesbian, and queer media criticism. Out in Culture explores the distinctive and original ways in which gays, lesbians, and queers have experienced, appropriated, and resisted the images and artifacts of popular culture. This eclectic anthology will be of interest to a broad audience of general readers and scholars interested in gay and lesbian issues; students of film, media, gender, and cultural studies; and those interested in the emerging field of queer theory. Contributors. Sabrina Barton, Edith Becker, Rhona J. Berenstein, Nayland Blake, Michelle Citron, Danae Clark, Corey K. Creekmur, Alexander Doty, Richard Dyer, Heather Findlay, Jan Zita Grover, Essex Hemphill, John Hepworth, Jeffrey Hilbert, Lucretia Knapp, Bruce La Bruce, Al LaValley, Julia Lesage, Michael Moon, Michael Musto, B. Ruby Rich, Marlon Riggs, Arlene Stein, Chris Straayer, Anthony Thomas, Mark Thompson, Valerie Traub, Thomas Waugh, Patricia White, Robin Wood |
Contents
Introduction Corey K Creekmur and Alexander Doty | 1 |
Responsibilities of a Gay Film Critic Robin Wood | 12 |
Lesbians and Film Edith Becker Michelle Citron Julia Lesage | 25 |
The Hypothetical Lesbian Heroine in Narrative Feature Film | 44 |
The Great Escape Al LaValley | 60 |
Theres Something Queer Here Alexander Doty | 71 |
The Queer Career of Agnes Moorehead | 91 |
The Disarticulations | 115 |
The Queer Voice in Marnie Lucretia Knapp | 262 |
Flaming Closets Michael Moon | 282 |
Dossier on Popular Music Introduction by Corey K Creekmur | 403 |
A Brief History of Queens Mark Thompson | 447 |
The Politics of Drag Jeffrey Hilbert | 463 |
Reflections of a Snap Queen Marlon Riggs | 472 |
All Dressed Up But No Place to Go? Style Wars and the New Lesbianism | 476 |
Commodity Lesbianism Danae Clark | 484 |
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References to this book
Now You See it: Studies in Lesbian and Gay Film Richard Dyer,Julianne Pidduck No preview available - 2003 |
The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life Sherrie A. Inness No preview available - 1997 |