Media representations of homosexuality
Author | : Roman Kuhar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Homosexuality |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roman Kuhar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Homosexuality |
ISBN | : |
Author | : R. Sneed |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2010-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230106560 |
Roger A. Sneed offers an alternative approach to black homosexuality for black religious scholars who have traditionally viewed homosexuality as a problem. Instead, by drawing on a range of black gay writers, Representations of Homosexuality points black religious scholarship towards an ethics of openness.
Author | : Larry Gross |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2001-12-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0231529325 |
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging "visibility" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling—and perhaps unable—to fully comprehend and honor it? While positive representations of gays and lesbians are a cautious step in the right direction, media expert Larry Gross argues that the entertainment and news media betray a lingering inability to break free from proscribed limitations in order to embrace the complex reality of gay identity. While noting major advances, like the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore—the first gay bookstore in the country—or the rise of The Advocate from small newsletter to influential national paper, Gross takes the measure of somewhat more ambiguous milestones, like the first lesbian kiss on television or the first gay character in a newspaper comic strip.
Author | : Rodger Streitmatter |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2008-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135695334 |
From "Perverts" to "Fab Five" tracks the dramatic change in how the American media has depicted gay people. The media, Streitmatter argues, has not merely reflected the American public's shift to a more enlightened view of gay people, but they have been instrumental in propelling that change.
Author | : Richard Meyer |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780807079355 |
Outlaw Representation is a Beacon Press publication.
Author | : Melanie Kohnen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136519890 |
This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV after the events of 9/11. Kohnen intervenes in previous academic and popular accounts that paint the increase in queer visibility over the past four decades as a largely progressive development. She examines how and why a limited and limiting concept of queer visibility structured around white gay and lesbian characters in committed relationships has become the embodiment of progressive LGBT media representations. She also investigates queer visibility across film, TV, and print media, and highlights previously unexplored connections, such as the lingering traces of classical Hollywood cinema's queer tropes in the X-Men franchise. Across all chapters, narratives and arguments emerge that demonstrate how queer visibility shapes and reflects not only media representations, but the real and imagined geographies, histories, and people of the American nation.
Author | : Majda Hrženjak |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Larry P. Gross |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231104470 |
More than 100 articles, essays, letters, and primary documents cover the formation of gay identity; religious, scientific, medical and legal perspectives; the mainstream media; lesbian and gay media; and community prospects and tactics.
Author | : Judith Schwickart |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2007-06-04 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 3638785106 |
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,0, University of St. Thomas, course: Communication Studies 340, language: English, abstract: Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (hereafter Queer Eye) is a television series which was first aired in July 2003 on Bravo Cable Network. Basically, the main content of each episode is that five gay men, each of them an expert in their field, make over a person, most often a straight man, for a special occasion, such as a proposal to a girlfriend or even a wedding. The series was an instant, and somewhat unexpected, success. It is especially remarkable for the way homosexual and heterosexual men are presented. My paper raises, and partially answers, questions such as: What is so different here about the way sexual orientation is presented? Through which symbols is homosexuality conveyed? and, What might be the effect of these representations on the audience? I argue that even though the symbols and stereotypes have not changed, their implications on Queer Eye make them a more positive representation of homosexuality than ever before seen on television. In order to understand why Queer Eye is revolutionary, I will first give a short overview about the presentation of homosexuality on television in the past five decades. After that I depict the symbols, and particularly visual and aural symbols, through which homosexuality is conveyed in the show by giving specific examples from single episodes. Then I describe the stereotypes which are presented on Queer Eye, followed by the influence of these representations of homosexuality on the audience.
Author | : Martin Duberman |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 719 |
Release | : 1997-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0814718833 |
Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production. The volume begins by asking how we can interpret an image--is the image homosexual and if so, how can we understand it? Closely connected to its interpretation is how we visualize homosexuality, or, in Allen Ellenzweig's term, how we picture the homoerotic, the organizing principle of a section devoted to American cinema and performance in general. The crucial role of biography and autobiography is the central preoccupation of the next section, with essays on Radclyffe Hall, Langston Hughes, and Louisa May Alcott. Featuring many of the most respected figures in queer studies and contemporary queer literature, among them Dorothy Allison, Edmund White, Barbara Smith, Essex Hemphill, Michael Cunningham, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel R. Delany, Dale Peck, Jewelle Gomez, Joan Nestle, a final section explores the creation of queer literature, birthpangs, growing pains, and achievements. By emphasizing the interconnectedness of gay and lesbian lives and the literature which has been instrumental in defining, reconstructing, and representing these lives, this anthology serves as a diverse introduction to queer culture and literature.