QUEER POPULAR CULTURE: LITERATURE, MEDIA, FILM, AND TELEVISION; ED. BY THOMAS PEELE

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 Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Popular Culture, Queer Culture....Pages 1-8 The Three Phases of Ellen: From Queer to Gay to Postgay....Pages 9-26 Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah’s Arc....Pages 27-40 All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley....Pages 41-55 Queer as Folk and the Spectacularization of Gay Identity....Pages 57-69 Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and Politics in The L Word....Pages 71-83 “Reading for It”: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience....Pages 85-102 Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch....Pages 103-117 Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture....Pages 119-135 Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films....Pages 137-149 Straight Shooters, Stainless-Steel Stories, and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World....Pages 151-167 New Queer White Trash Cinema....Pages 169-182 Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West....Pages 183-195 Why (not) Queer?: Ambivalence about “Politics” and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan....Pages 197-213 Reconfiguring Differences: Radicalizing Popular Culture Pedagogy....Pages 215-227 Back Matter....Pages 229-234 This collection addresses the politics of queer representation in multiple contexts. Articles cover the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness alongside work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities; a transgender Israeli pop star; and film mimicry in Kerala, India. Queer Pop Culture is an exciting new collection that brings together work from several disciplines and across the globe that address the politics of queer representation in multiple contexts. The articles cover many aspects of contemporary U.S. culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness. The anthology also contains work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities; a transgender Israeli pop star; and practices of film mimicry in Kerala, India "Queer Popular Culture is an exciting new collection that brings together work from several disciplines that address queer representation in multiple contexts. The chapters cover many aspects of contemporary U.S. and international queer culture, including the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, the expansion of representations of blackness, and work on queer, Taiwanese online communities. Other chapters 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."--Jacket