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.

IntroductionJane Campbell and Theresa CarilliQUEER IMAGESChapter 1: Focus on the SpongeBob: The Representational Politics of James DobsonJason ZingsheimChapter 2: The Complex Relationship Between (and within) the Suppressed and the Empowered: Contradiction and LGBT Portrayals on The L WordJennifer Guthrie, Adrianne Kunkel and K. Nicole HladkyChapter 3: Comic Corrections towards a Family Perfection: (Re)Reading Queer as Folk and Will and GraceRachel E. SilvermanChapter 4: Revisiting The Celluloid ClosetJane Campbell and Theresa CarilliChapter 5: To Glee or not to Glee: Exploring the Empowering Voice of the Glee Movement.Lori MontalbanoPERFORMANCES OF SEXUALITY AND GENDERChapter 6: A Pregnant Pause, a Transgender Look: Thomas Beatie in the Maternity PoseKristin NorwoodChapter 7: The Rhetoric of Sexual Experimentation: A Critical Examination of Katy Perry's I Kissed a GirlBrittani Hidahl and Richard D. BeselChapter 8: Queer Male TV Commentators: Kinjo-no-Obasan in Advanced CapitalismKimiko AkitaLIVING IN THE MARGINSChapter 9: The Construction of Queer and the Conferring of Voice: Empowering and Disempowering Portrayals of Transgenderism on TransGenerationK. Nicole HladkyChapter 10: "Born This Way": Biology and Sexuality in Lady Gaga's Pro-LGBT MediaShannon WeberChapter 11: First But (Nearly) Forgotten: Why You Know Milk but not KozachenkoBruce DrushelQUEER ISSUESChapter 12: "Is she a man? Is she a transvestite?": Critiquing the Coverage of Intersex AthletesRick Kenney and Kimiko AkitaChapter 13: The Commercial Closet: How Gay-Specific Media and the Images of "the Closet" Erases the LGBT Community from the Mainstream GazeKristin ComeforoChapter 14: "Should We Stop Believin'?": Glee and The Culture of Essentialist Identity DiscourseJohn Wolf and Valarie SchweisbergerChapter 15: "The play's the thing": Representations of heteronormative sexuality in a popular children's TV sitcomZoe Kenney