Gay Characters in Theater, Movies, and Television
Gay Characters in Theater, Movies, and Television

Author: Jaime A. Seba

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-11-17

Total Pages: 81

ISBN-13: 142229675X

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From tiny stages in art house theaters to Oscar-winning big-screen performances, more and more people are tuning in to see gay characters represented in new diverse and intriguing ways. And as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) characters become more common in mainstream entertainment, people develop new attitudes about the gay and lesbian people they know in real life. Explore how theater productions, films, and television shows have changed through time to become more inclusive of LGBT character and issues. From AIDS-themed stage shows such as Angels in America and Rent to critically-acclaimed films like Brokeback Mountain and small screen hits like Glee and Will & Grace, consider how these representations of gay people affect people's perception of the LGBT community.

The Prime Time Closet
The Prime Time Closet

Author: Stephen Tropiano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2002-05-01

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1476847991

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Television history was made on April 30, 1997, when comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her sitcom alter-ego Ellen Morgan, “came out” to her close friends and 36 million viewers. This groundbreaking episode represented a significant milestone in Amerian television. For the first time, a TV series centered around a lesbian character who was portrayed by an openly gay actor. The millions of viewers who tuned in that historic night were witnesses to a new era in television. The Prime Time Closet offers an entertaining and in-depth glimpse into homosexuality on television from the 1950s through today. Divided into four sections, each devoted to a major television genre, this unique book explores how gay men and lesbians have been depicted in over three hundred television episodes and made-for-TV films. These include medical series, police/detective shows, situation comedies and TV dramas. The Prime Time Closet also reveals how television's treatement of homosexuality has reflected and reinforced society's ignorance about and fear of gay men and lesbians. At the same time, it celebrates programs like Ellen and Will & Grace that have broken new ground in their sensitive and enlightened approach to homosexuality and gay-related themes. This book is witty and insightful, accessible and illuminating, a look into what has become an integral part of American media culture.

Brandjack
Brandjack

Author: Q. Langley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1137375361

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Containing 90+ case studies including BP, Beyoncé, Pizza Hut and Chrysler, this is the first book to analyze brandjacking - when organizations lose control of their brand's image online. Combining crisis communication and social media, this book charts the trend's growth, offering advice to those who find themselves at the mercy of brand pirates.

Between Men
Between Men

Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2015-11-24

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 023154104X

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First published in 1985, Between Men was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. With stunning foresight and conceptual power, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency. Illuminating with uncanny prescience Western society's evolving debates on gender and sexuality, Between Men still has much to teach us. With a new foreword by Wayne Koestenbaum emphasizing the work's ongoing relevance, Between Men engages with Shakespeare's Sonnets, Wycherley's The Country Wife, Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Tennyson's The Princess, Eliot's Adam Bede, Thackeray's The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood, among many other texts. Its pathbreaking analysis of homosocial desire in Western literature remains vital to the future of queer studies and to explorations of the social transformations in which it participates.

The Counterfeiters
The Counterfeiters

Author: André Gide

Publisher:

Published: 1927

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.

The Boys in the Band
The Boys in the Band

Author: Mart Crowley

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780573640049

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"Full length, drama / 9 m / interior"--P. [4] of cover.

Pictures at a Revolution
Pictures at a Revolution

Author: Mark Harris

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9781594201523

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Documents the cultural revolution behind the making of 1967's five Best Picture-nominated films, including Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, Doctor Doolittle, In the Heat of the Night, and Bonnie and Clyde, in an account that discusses how the movies reflected period beliefs about race, violence, and identity. 40,000 first printing.

Log Cabin
Log Cabin

Author: Jordan Harrison

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0573708061

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It’s a faraway age of hope and inclusivity; in other words, it’s 2015. When a tight-knit circle of married gays and lesbians – comfy in the new mainstream – see themselves through the eyes of their rakish transgender pal, it’s clear that the march toward progress is anything but unified. With stinging satire and acute compassion, Jordan Harrison’s pointed comedy charts the breakdown of empathy that happens when we think our rights are secure, revealing conservative hearts where you’d least expect.

Gay Characters in Theatre, Movies, and Television
Gay Characters in Theatre, Movies, and Television

Author: Jaime Seba

Publisher: Mason Crest

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781422220122

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Describes how theater, television, and motion pictures have become more inclusive of gay, lesbian, and transgender characters and issues throughout the years.

New Queer Horror Film and Television
New Queer Horror Film and Television

Author: Darren Elliott-Smith

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1786836270

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This book offers a wide scope in terms of how LGBTQ+ spectators engage and ‘use’ horror texts to identify. It includes close textual analysis in terms of the eclectic mix of Film and TV titles. It offers contemporary readings of significant titles from the past two decades or so.