Queer media images LGBT perspectives

212 Pages·2013·2.031 MB·English

by  Carilli, Theresa(Editor);Campbell, Jane(Editor);Akita, Kimiko(Contributor);Besel, Richard D(Contributor)

Queer Media Images

Queer Media Images
LGBT Perspectives
Edited by Jane Campbell
and Theresa Carilli
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
JaneCampbellandTheresaCarilli,PurdueUniversityCalumet
PartI:QueerImages
1 FocusontheSpongeBob:TheRepresentationalPoliticsof
JamesDobson 7
JasonZingsheim
2 TheComplexRelationshipBetween(andWithin)the
OppressedandtheEmpowered:ContradictionandLGBT
PortrayalsonTheLWord 19
JenniferA.Guthrie,AdrianneKunkel,andK.NicoleHladky
3 FamilyPerfection:TheQueerFamilyasPerspectiveby
IncongruityonWill&GraceandQueerasFolk 31
RachelE.Silverman
4 RevisitingVitoRusso’sTheCelluloidCloset 41
JaneCampbellandTheresaCarilli
5 ToGleeorNottoGlee:ExploringtheEmpoweringVoiceof
theGleeMovement 55
LoriMontalbano
PartII:PerformancesofSexualityandGender
6 APregnantPause,aTransgenderLook:ThomasBeatiein
theMaternityPose 65
KristenNorwood
7 TheRhetoricofSexualExperimentation:ACritical
ExaminationofKatyPerry’s“IKissedaGirl” 77
BrittaniHidahlandRichardD.Besel
8 QueerMaleTVCommentators:Kinjo-no-Obasanin
AdvancedCapitalism 89
KimikoAkita
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PartIII:LivingintheMargins
9 TheConstructionofQueerandtheConferringofVoice:
EmpoweringandDisempoweringPortrayalsof
TransgenderismonTransGeneration 101
K.NicoleHladky
10 “BornThisWay”:BiologyandSexualityinLadyGaga’s
Pro-LGBTMedia 111
ShannonWeber
11 FirstBut(Nearly)Forgotten:WhyYouKnowMilkButNot
Kozachenko 123
BruceE.Drushel
PartIV:QueerIssues
12 “IsSheaMan?IsSheaTransvestite?”:Critiquingthe
CoverageofIntersexAthletes 137
RickKenneyandKimikoAkita
13 TheCommercialCloset:HowGay-SpecificMediaandthe
Imageryof“theCloset”ErasestheLGBTCommunityfrom
theMainstreamGaze 147
KristinComeforo
14 ShouldWeStopBelievin’?:GleeandtheCultivationof
EssentialistIdentityDiscourse 157
JohnWolfandValarieSchweisberger
15 “ThePlay’stheThing”:Representationsof
HeteronormativeSexualityinaPopularChildren’sTV
Sitcom 171
ZoeKenney
SelectedBibliography 185
Index 187
AbouttheEditors 195
AbouttheContributors 197