A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture / Edition 1

by Paul Burston, Paul Burston Nfa, Colin Richardson

Overview

It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for lesbians and gay men.
In a collection that is in-yer-face but never out-to-lunch, the contributors variously revisit debates about the gaze to provide a new theory of Queer viewing; discuss texts coded as queer - from lesbian vampires to Hollywood's use of gay codes in mainstream films such as Top Gun and Black Widow; consider the sexual and cultural narratives at play in the world of home shopping catalogues; explore the pleasures and perils of gay cultural production, from the radically queer film-making of Monika Treut to the wild world of homocore fanzines, and address the possibilities of texts claiming to be for the gay spectator - from pornography ‘by women, for women and about women' to ‘Out' TV.
The contributors to A Queer Romance don't all agree but, taken together, the collection argues strongly that everyone can have their queer moments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415096171
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/19/1995
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Paul Burston, Paul Burston, Colin Richardson

Table of Contents

Contributors: Paul Burston, Steven Drukman, Caroline Evans, Lorraine Gamman, Tanya Krzywinska, Bruce LaBruce, Z. Isiling Nataf, Colin Richardson, Anna Marie Smith, Cherry Smyth, Monika Treut, Gregory Woods