Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiv, 266 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "This book offers a critical introduction to gay and lesbian identity within the media, focusing on the potential of 'new storytelling'. Foregrounding case studies which are taken principally from television, film and online media, a central focus is placed upon the narrative potential of individual storytellers who as self-reflexive producers, writers, performers and (active) audiences generate new discourses for gay and lesbian identity."--Jacket.

Subject

1. Gay people in popular culture
2. Gay people's writings
3. Gays in popular culture
4. Gays' writings
5. Massenmedien
6. Homosexualität Motiv
7. Homosexualität
8. Homosexueller
9. Neue Medien
10. Homoseksuelen
11. Lesbiennes
12. Massamedia
13. Identiteit
14. Gay men > Personal narratives
15. Lesbians > Personal narratives
16. Homosexualitet i massmedia
17. Massenmedien
18. Homosexualität (Motiv)

Contents

1. Introduction : placing the self within the frame: Contexts, discourse and life story ; Identity and identification ; Cohesion and thematic framework ; Conclusion -- New storytelling : transitions from the past: Outside the literary, and towards the vernacular frame ; Transitions in new storytelling : rejecting the myth ; Audience identification with iconic performers and the relay of narratives ; BBC radio and male homosexual ; Gore Vidal : the performance and the partnership ; k.d. lang and Waymon Hudson : role models, vernacular voices and political forces ; k.d. lang : establishing the arena ; Waymon Hudson: the personal self and the political frame ; Conclusion -- Gay identity and self-reflexivity: Christopher Isherwood, storytelling and self-reflexivity ; Stereotypes, archetypes and The green bay tree ; Social construction, Oscar Wilde and 'queer' ; Quentin Crisp and The naked civil servant ; Trial by media : Peter Wildebrood and testimony ; Ellen DeGeneres and George Michael : therapy and subversion ; Conclusion -- Community, history and transformation: The discursive gay community ; History, the unified subject and postmodernity ; Transformation ; Victim and Dirk Bogarde : intended identification ; Armistead Maupin and Sarah Waters : popular frames ; Tony Kushner and Angels in America : community and transformation ; Conclusion -- Factual media space : intimacy, participation and therapy: Factual media space : Joshua Gamson, the talk show and vulnerability ; Oppositional public sphere, intimacy and emotion ; Russell Harty and Dirk Bogarde : signposting, domesticity and humanity ; Peter Adair and Pedro Zamora : whole person learning and AIDS ; The ultimate Brokeback forum : therapy and agency ; Conclusion -- Commodity and family: Family values and Debra Chasnoff ; Commodity : use and exchange ; Economy of narratives, shared experience and the real ; Debra Chasnoff : school, narratives and humanist education ; Derek Jarman and Russell T. Davies : domesticity, exchange and transformation ; Derek Jarman : domesticity under construction ; Russell T. Davies : commodity identity ; Conclusion -- Teenage identity and ritual: Gay teen identity : similar experiences and expectations ; Ritual and performance : liminality, participation and antistructure ; Jonathan Harvey, Beautiful thing and reflective realism ; Todd Haynes and Alan Bennett : gay youth narratives in film ; Coming out to class and LGB teens ; The Gay Youth Corner : affirmation, disclosure and agency ; Conclusion -- Other storytelling and the new frontier: New identifications within the queer diaspora ; Dangerous living : other storytelling, colonialism and the new frontier ; Nature and instinct in Before night falls ; Uruguay, Two to tango and Gay on the Cape ; Out in Iran and Jihad for love : civil rights, family and belief ; Conclusion -- Conclusion: Fragmentation and cohesion.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-252) and index.
2. Includes filmography.