Queer Media Images

Theresa Carilli; Jane Campbell

doi:10.5771/9780739180297

Summary

Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to a dialogue about civil rights for this marginalized community. While the communication discipline has been open to the LGBT community, there has been an absence of published research and a marginalizing or tokenizing of the queer voice. Through a study of media representations, this unique collection provides a snapshot into the issues surrounding LGBT identity during a time when the Defense of Marriage Act is called into question and explores what it means to study images through a queer lens.

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Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-8028-0
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-8029-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 200
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. Chapter One: Focus on the SpongeBob No access
2. Chapter Two: The Complex Relationship Between (and Within) the Oppressed and the Empowered No access
3. Chapter Three: Family Perfection No access
4. Chapter Four: Revisiting Vito Russo’s The Celluloid Closet No access
5. Chapter Five: To Glee or Not to Glee No access
1. Chapter Six: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look No access
2. Chapter Seven: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation No access
3. Chapter Eight: Queer Male TV Commentators No access
1. Chapter Nine: The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of Voice No access
2. Chapter Ten: “Born This Way” No access
3. Chapter Eleven: First But (Nearly) Forgotten No access
1. Chapter Twelve: “Is She a Man? Is She a Transvestite?” No access
2. Chapter Thirteen: The Commercial Closet No access
3. Chapter Fourteen: Should We Stop Believin’? No access
4. Chapter Fifteen: “The Play’s the Thing” No access
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 185 - 186
Index No access Pages 187 - 194
About the Editors No access Pages 195 - 196
About the Contributors No access Pages 197 - 200