Out in culture : gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture / edited by Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Creekmur, Corey K.

Doty, Alexander.

Series:

Series Q.

Series Q

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--United States--Attitudes.

Gay men.

Gay men--United States--Social life and customs.

Lesbians--United States--Attitudes.

Lesbians.

Lesbians--United States--Social life and customs.

Popular culture--United States--History and criticism.

Popular culture.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Responsibilities of a gay film critic / Robin Wood

Lesbians and film / Edith Becker ... [et al.]

The hypothetical lesbian heroine in narrative feature film / Chris Straayer

The great escape / Al LaValley

There's something queer here / Alexander Doty

Supporting character : the queer career of Agnes Moorehead / Patricia White

The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure : the (dis)articulations of Black widow / Valerie Traub

From responsive tolerance to erotic liberation : Mädchen in uniform / B. Ruby Rich

Acting like a man : masculine performance in My darling Clementine / Corey K. Creekmur

Hitchcock's homophobia / John Hepworth

The murderous gays : Hitchcock's homophobia / Robin Wood

"Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton

"I'm not the sort of person men marry" : monsters, queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca / Rhona J. Berenstein

The queer voice in Marnie / Lucretia Knapp

Flaming closets / Michael Moon

Men's pornography : gay vs. straight / Thomas Waugh

Freud's "fetishism" and the lesbian dildo debates / Heather Findlay

Tom of Finland : an appreciation / Nayland Blake

Visible lesions : images of the PWA / Jan Zita Grover

Pee Wee Herman : the homosexual subtext / Bruce La Bruce

In living color : Toms, coons, mammies, faggots, and bucks / Essex Hemphill

In defense of disco / Richard Dyer

Crossover dreams : lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s / Arlene Stein

Immaculate connection / Michael Musto

The house the kids built : the gay Black imprint on American dance music / Anthony Thomas

Children of paradise : a brief history of queens / Mark Thompson

The politics of drag / Jeffrey Hilbert

Black macho revisited : reflections of a snap! queen / Marlon Riggs

All dressed up but no place to go? Style wars and the new lesbianism / Arlene Stein

Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [501]-524) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822315414

0822315416

9780822397441

0822397447

OCLC:

654661155