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 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