Queer media images : LGBT perspectives / edited by Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Jane, 1946-

Carilli, Theresa.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities in mass media.

Queer community.

Queer culture.

Queer studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives comprises 15 articles that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection of articles focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media.

Contents:

Introduction / Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli

QUEER IMAGES. Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James Dobson / Jason Zingsheim

The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L Word / Jennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole Hladky

Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and Grace / Rachel E. Silverman

Revisiting The Celluloid Closet / Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli

To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement / Lori Montalbano

PERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER. A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose / Kristin Norwood

The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl / Brittani Hidahl and Richard D. Besel

Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advanced Capitalism / Kimiko Akita

LIVING IN THE MARGINS. The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of Voice: Empowering and Disempowering Portrayals of Transgenderism on Transgeneration / K. Nicole Hladky

"Born This Way": Biology and Sexuality in Lady Gaga's Pro-LGBT Media / Shannon Weber

First But (Nearly) Forgotten: Why You Know Milk but not Kozachenko / Bruce Drushel

QUEER ISSUES. "Is she a man? Is she a transvestite?": Critiquing the Coverage of Intersex Athletes / Rick Kenney and Kimiko Akita

The Commercial Closet: How Gay-Specific Media and the Images of "the Closet" Erases the LGBT Community from the Mainstream Gaze / Kristin Comeforo

"Should We Stop Believin"?: Glee and The Culture of Essentialist Identity Discourse / John Wolf and Valarie Schweisberger

"The Play's the Thing": Representations of Heteronormative Sexuality in a Popular Children's TV Sitcom / Zoe Kenney.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-186) and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-2629-5

0-7391-8029-0

OCLC:

843881803