Out in culture : gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture /

Out in culture : gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture / edited by Corey K. Creekmur and Alexander Doty.

This book charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments, of mass culture. The essays collected here, combining critical and theoretical works from a cross-section of academics, journalists, an...

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Other Authors: Creekmur, Corey K., Doty, Alexander.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
Series:Series Q.
Subjects:
Gay men > United States > Attitudes.
Gay men > United States > Social life and customs.
Lesbians > United States > Attitudes.
Lesbians > United States > Social life and customs.
Popular culture > United States.
Gay men.
Sexual minorities.
Men.
LGBTQ+ people.
Lesbians.
United States > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Responsibilities of a gay film critic / Robin Wood
  • Lesbians and film / Edith Becker [and others]
  • The hypothetical lesbian heroine in narrative feature film / Chris Straayer
  • The great escape / Al LaValley
  • There's something queer here / Alexander Doty
  • Supporting character : the queer career of Agnes Moorehead / Patricia White
  • The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure : the (dis)articulations of Black widow / Valerie Traub
  • From responsive tolerance to erotic liberation : Mädchen in uniform / B. Ruby Rich
  • Acting like a man : masculine performance in My darling Clementine / Corey K. Creekmur
  • Hitchcock's homophobia / John Hepworth
  • The murderous gays : Hitchcock's homophobia / Robin Wood
  • "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton
  • "I'm not the sort of person men marry" : monsters, queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca / Rhona J. Berenstein
  • The queer voice in Marnie / Lucretia Knapp
  • Flaming closets / Michael Moon
  • Men's pornography : gay vs. straight / Thomas Waugh
  • Freud's "fetishism" and the lesbian dildo debates / Heather Findlay
  • Tom of Finland : an appreciation / Nayland Blake
  • Visible lesions : images of the PWA / Jan Zita Grover
  • Pee Wee Herman : the homosexual subtext / Bruce La Bruce
  • In living color : Toms, coons, mammies, faggots, and bucks / Essex Hemphill
  • In defense of disco / Richard Dyer
  • Crossover dreams : lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s / Arlene Stein
  • Immaculate connection / Michael Musto
  • The house the kids built : the gay Black imprint on American dance music / Anthony Thomas
  • Children of paradise : a brief history of queens / Mark Thompson
  • The politics of drag / Jeffrey Hilbert
  • Black macho revisited : reflections of a snap! queen / Marlon Riggs
  • All dressed up but no place to go? Style wars and the new lesbianism / Arlene Stein
  • Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark.

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