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Author: Jill Gardiner
Publisher: Pandora Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1960s the Gateways Club was known as 'the' lesbian club in London. In her portrait of the club, Gardiner also gives us a social history of lesbian lives, loves and mores, from a cloistered secret in the 1950s and 1960s, to a battleground between feminists and traditionalists in the 1970s.
Author: Stephen Tropiano
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2002-05-01
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1476847991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTelevision 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.
Author: Renate Günther
Publisher: Durham Modern Languages
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780907310624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Karla Jay
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1992-05
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 0814741835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of essays concerning the Gay Liberation Movement, from individuals and groups associated with the movement.
Author: Alfred L. Martin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 0253054621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven after a rise in gay and Black representation and production on TV in the 1990s, the sitcom became a "generic closet," restricting Black gay characters with narrative tropes. Drawing from 20 interviews with credited episode writers, key show-runners, and Black gay men, The Generic Closet situates Black-cast sitcoms as a unique genre that uses Black gay characters in service of the series' heterosexual main cast. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., argues that the Black community is considered to be antigay due to misrepresentation by shows that aired during the family viewing hour and that were written for the imagined, "traditional" Black family. Martin considers audience reception, industrial production practices, and authorship to unpack the claim that Black gay characters are written into Black-cast sitcoms such as Moesha, Good News, and Let's Stay Together in order to closet Black gayness. By exploring how systems of power produce ideologies about Black gayness, The Generic Closet deconstructs the concept of a monolithic Black audience and investigates whether this generic closet still exists.
Author: Gilad Padva
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-11
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1000057674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStraight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen examines cinematic depictions of pretending-to-be-gay, assessing performances that not only reflect heteronormative and explicitly homophobic attitudes, but also offer depictions of gay selfhood with more nuanced multidirectional identifications. The case of straight protagonists pretending to be gay on screen is the ideal context in which to study unanticipated progressivity and dissidence in regard to cultural construction of human sexualities in the face of theatricalized epistemological collapse. Teasing apart the dynamics of depictions of both sexual stability and fluidity in cinematic images of men pretending to be gay offers new insights into such salient issues as sexual vulnerability and dynamics and long-term queer visibility in a politically complicated mass culture which is mostly produced in a heteronormative and even hostile cultural environment. Additionally, this book initially examines queer uses of sexuality masquerade in Alternate Gay World Cinema that allegorically features a world pretending to be gay, in which straights are harassed and persecuted, in order to expose the tragic consequences of sexual intolerance. Films and TV series examined as part of the analysis include The Gay Deceivers, Victor/Victoria, Happy Texas, William Friedkin’s Cruising and many other straight and gay screens. This is a fascinating and important study relevant to students and researchers in Film Studies, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality Studies, Communication Studies and Cultural Studies.
Author: Thomas Webster
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 1324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard M. Born
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2022-11-03
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1643500295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKField trips are one of the best parts about school! You get to leave school for the day and enjoy the change away from the classroom. That is unless you just happen to be a student attending Hellman Elementary, as Dylan is about to discover with the school's annual field trip to the one and only Dino Kingdom! Dylan and his brother are living with their grandmother while their mom is away on her own great adventure. However, when Dylan discovers a mysterious, dusty old wooden puzzle box in his mother's former bedroom, it starts to turn Dylan's life upside down, bringing an adventure to Dylan also. For instance, he and his friend have a strange encounter with the elusive frogman, and Dylan is almost positive that his brother is beginning to change into something not quite human. Perhaps transforming into something from the past; perhaps something from the Jurassic era. Will Dylan survive the scariest field trip of the school year? Even if Dylan does, what about his brother? What are his chances? Will Dylan find a way to reverse the bizarre changes that are occurring? Even more so, will he be doomed to become the next strange event at Hellman Elementary?
Author: Melanie Kohnen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1136519904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV after the events of 9/11. Kohnen intervenes in previous academic and popular accounts that paint the increase in queer visibility over the past four decades as a largely progressive development. She examines how and why a limited and limiting concept of queer visibility structured around white gay and lesbian characters in committed relationships has become the embodiment of progressive LGBT media representations. She also investigates queer visibility across film, TV, and print media, and highlights previously unexplored connections, such as the lingering traces of classical Hollywood cinema's queer tropes in the X-Men franchise. Across all chapters, narratives and arguments emerge that demonstrate how queer visibility shapes and reflects not only media representations, but the real and imagined geographies, histories, and people of the American nation.
Author: Thomas Webster
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 1244
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