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Queers in American Popular Culture This page intentionally left blank Queers in American Popular Culture Volume 1 Film and Television J E , E IM LLEDGE DITOR PraegerPerspectives Copyright2010byJimElledge Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedina retrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic, mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise,exceptfortheinclusionof briefquotationsinareview,withoutpriorpermissioninwritingfromthe publisher. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData QueersinAmericanpopularculture/JimElledge,editor. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978–0–313–35457–1(set.:alk.paper)—ISBN978–0–313–35458–8 (set:ebook) 1. Gaysinpopularculture—UnitedStates. I.Elledge,Jim,1950– HQ76.3.U5Q447 2010 0 306.7660973—dc22 2010023183 ISBN:978–0–313–35457–1 EISBN:978–0–313–35458–8 14 13 12 11 10 1 2 3 4 5 ThisbookisalsoavailableontheWorldWideWebasaneBook. Visitwww.abc-clio.comfordetails. Praeger AnImprintofABC-CLIO,LLC ABC-CLIO,LLC 130CremonaDrive,P.O.Box1911 SantaBarbara,California93116-1911 Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper ManufacturedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica For David This page intentionally left blank Contents SetIntroduction JimElledge ix Chapter1: PoliticallyQueer:EllenandtheChangingFace ofAmericanTelevision,1997to2007 RachelLoewenWalker 1 Chapter2: “There’sNowtSoQueerasFolk”(NortheSpaces TheySeek) MarkJohnIsola 25 Chapter3: AfterNoah’sArc:WhereDoWeGofromHere? MichaelJohnsonJr. 35 Chapter4: AnatomyofaLesbianRelationshipandItsDemise: TheFirstLesbianRelationshipoftheMedical DramaGrey’sAnatomy NiinaKuorikoski 47 Chapter5: FromStereotypestoCharacters:TheDevelopment ofQueerMotifsinAmericanCinemafromWings toTheChildren’sHour FlorianMundhenke 69 Chapter6: WomenActorsandMalePerformativityinEarly Hollywood SarahSmorol 87 Chapter7: ACinemaofContradictions:GayandLesbian Representationin1970sBlaxploitationFilms NovotnyLawrence 103 viii Contents Chapter8: TonguesUntied:African-AmericanMenTake theSpotlight RodgerStreitmatter 123 Chapter9: WhenStraightAmericaStarts“Queering”:Brokeback MountainandItsParodies JenniferMalkowski 139 Chapter10: QueernessTakingPlace?:Constructingthe“Urban RedecorationProject”ofShowtime’sTheLWord RosemaryDeller 167 Chapter11: NobodyWantstoWatchaBeacon:Will&Grace andtheLimitsofMainstreamNetworkTelevision KathleenBattlesandWendyHilton-Morrow 187 Chapter12: “TheyCan’tShowaWholeScreenFullof GayPeople”:Gay,Lesbian,andBisexualTelevision ViewersAssessPortrayalsoftheGayCommunity onTelevision LynJ.Freymiller 209 Chapter13: CampFiguresofAmericanTelevisionintheSixties andSeventies:ABoyhoodMemory WalterR.Holland 231 Chapter14: “We’llHaveaGayOldTime!”:QueerRepresentation inAmericanPrime-TimeAnimationfromtheCartoon ShorttotheFamilySitcom JoJohnson 247 Chapter15: RecuperatingandRevilingSouthPark’sQueer Politics JamesKeller 273 Index 303 AbouttheEditorandContributors 315 Set Introduction Jim Elledge QueersinAmericanPopularCultureattemptstocover,inacomprehensive way,thepresenceofgay,lesbian,bisexual,andthetransgenderedper- sonsinpopularculturevenuesoftheUnitedStates.Althoughlargely post-Stonewallinscope,thisthree-volumesetalso,attimes,investigates queersandtheirrepresentationinperiodsasearlyasthelate1880s.The topics covered may be new to a non-queer readership (and even to somequeerreaders),perhapsevenstrangetothem,buttheyarealways eyeopeningandthoughtprovoking. WhilemostreaderswillhaveseenepisodesofWill&Graceormay even be diehard fans of the popular television sitcom, forexample, only a handful will have heard of—much less seen—the post-op, female-to-male-with-a-vagina porn star, Buck Angel. Fewer yet will havebeenenthralledby his body,his ruggedsexuality,andhis sexual appetite(s). Transforming from man to woman to pop icon, RuPaulhas“sashayedshante”veryvisiblyacrossBillboard’scharts, becomingthebest-knowndragqueenentertainerintheUnitedStates andacrosstheglobesinceBoyGeorge.YetwhileRuPaulistakingher turnonthecatwalk,“boi”—apersonalityasimportanttocontempo- rary queer culture as the fairy was to our grandfathers and grand- mothersacenturyago—scootsalongthestreets,hangsout,andclubs hardvirtuallyunknownandunnoticedbyallbutthoseintheknow. Queers in American Popular Culture gives notice to, and provides a forum fordiscussionabout,both“boi”and Buck Angel,along with themuchmorevisibleRuPaulandWill.
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