Queer Media Images

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.

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.

Introduction Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli QUEER IMAGES Chapter 1: Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James Dobson Jason Zingsheim Chapter 2: The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L Word Jennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole Hladky Chapter 3: Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and Grace Rachel E. Silverman Chapter 4: Revisiting The Celluloid Closet Jane Campbell and Theresa Carilli Chapter 5: To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement. Lori Montalbano PERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER Chapter 6: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity Pose Kristin Norwood Chapter 7: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry's I Kissed a Girl Brittani Hidahl and Richard D. Besel Chapter 8: Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advanced Capitalism Kimiko Akita LIVING IN THE MARGINS Chapter 9: The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of Voice: Empowering and Disempowering Portrayals of Transgenderism on TransGeneration K. Nicole Hladky Chapter 10: "Born This Way": Biology and Sexuality in Lady Gaga's Pro-LGBT Media Shannon Weber Chapter 11: First But (Nearly) Forgotten: Why You Know Milk but not Kozachenko Bruce Drushel QUEER ISSUES Chapter 12: "Is she a man? Is she a transvestite?": Critiquing the Coverage of Intersex Athletes Rick Kenney and Kimiko Akita Chapter 13: The Commercial Closet: How Gay-Specific Media and the Images of "the Closet" Erases the LGBT Community from the Mainstream Gaze Kristin Comeforo Chapter 14: "Should We Stop Believin'?": Glee and The Culture of Essentialist Identity Discourse John Wolf and Valarie Schweisberger Chapter 15: "The play's the thing": Representations of heteronormative sexuality in a popular children's TV sitcom Zoe Kenney