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Queer Romance, A: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture


Queer Romance, A: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture

Paperback by Burston, Paul; Nfa, Paul Burston; Richardson, Colin

Queer Romance, A: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture

£38.99

ISBN:
9780415096188
Publication Date:
19 Jan 1995
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge
Pages:
270 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 7 - 12 May 2024
Queer Romance, A: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture

Description

It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for lesbians and gay men. In a collection that is in-yer-face but never out-to-lunch, the contributors variously revisit debates about the gaze to provide a new theory of Queer viewing; discuss texts coded as queer - from lesbian vampires to Hollywood's use of gay codes in mainstream films such as Top Gun and Black Widow; consider the sexual and cultural narratives at play in the world of home shopping catalogues; explore the pleasures and perils of gay cultural production, from the radically queer film-making of Monika Treut to the wild world of homocore fanzines, and address the possibilities of texts claiming to be for the gay spectator - from pornography `by women, for women and about women' to `Out' TV. The contributors to A Queer Romance don't all agree but, taken together, the collection argues strongly that everyone can have their queer moments.

Contents

Contributors: Paul Burston, Steven Drukman, Caroline Evans, Lorraine Gamman, Tanya Krzywinska, Bruce LaBruce, Z. Isiling Nataf, Colin Richardson, Anna Marie Smith, Cherry Smyth, Monika Treut, Gregory Woods

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