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Film - Social Aspects, Gay & Lesbian Literary Studies, Arts & Entertainment - Gay & Lesbian Studies, Peoples & Cultures in Film, Television Broadcasting - Social Aspects

Queer Popular Culture

by Thomas Peele
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Overview

Queer Popular Culture is an exciting new collection that brings together work from several disciplines that address queer representation in multiple contexts. The articles cover many aspects of contemporary U.S. and international queer culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness, and work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities. Other essays address queer representations from soap operas to gangster films. The book also includes a pedagogical section that addresses the use of queer concepts in the classroom

Synopsis

This exciting collection brings together work from several disciplines that addresses the politics of queer representation in global contexts. Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of queer representations of blackness. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sense of the problems and promise of queer pop culture.

About the Author, Thomas Peele

Thomas Peele is Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University.  His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Basic Writing and JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory.

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Book Details

Published
May 1, 2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pages
252
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781403974907

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