Feeling normal : sexuality and media criticism in the digital age / F. Hollis Griffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffin, F. Hollis, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Sexual minorities in mass media.

Television (LGBTQ+).

Characters (LGBTQ+).

Queer television.

LGBTQ+ films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of thinking about that phenomenon. By examining urban centers in tandem with advertiser-supported newspapers, New Queer Cinema and B-movies, queer-targeted television, and mobile apps, Griffin illustrates how new forms of LGBT media are less "new" than we often believe. He connects cities and LGBT media through the experiences they can make available to people, which Griffin articulates as feelings, emotions, and affects. He illuminates how the limitations of these experiences--while not universally accessible, nor necessarily empowering--are often the very reasons why people find them compelling and desirable.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Cities as affective convergences

2. The aesthetics of banality after new queer cinema

3. Cable TV, commodity activism, and corporate synergy (or lack thereof)

4. Toward a queerer criticism of television

5. Wanting something online

Afterword : #lovewins.

Notes:

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253024596

0253024595

OCLC:

969433854