The Culture Of Queers

Author : Richard Dyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134593635
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Queers written by Richard Dyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. In The Culture of Queers, Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it. Opening with a discussion of the very concept of 'queers', Dyer asks what it means to speak of a sexual grouping having a culture, and addresses issues such as gay attitudes to women and the notion of camp. From screaming queens to sensitive vampires and sad young men, and from pulp novels to pornography to the films of Fassbinder, The Culture of Queers explores the history of queer arts and media.

Author : Richard Dyer
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415223751
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Queers written by Richard Dyer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word for gay men was queers. From screaming queens to sensitive vampires and from pulp novels to pornography, The Culture of Queers explores the history of queer arts and artists.

Author : Jim Elledge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313354588
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queers in American Popular Culture written by Jim Elledge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume collection of essays reveals the widespread existence of queer men and women in American popular culture, and showcases their important yet little-known role in shaping our society over the last 120 years. The virtually unknown existence of gay, bisexual, and queer men and women in American popular culture from the late 1800s through the present day is a fascinating topic for many readers, regardless of their own orientation. Whether it's the father of bodybuilding, famous closeted entertainers or sports stars, or the leading characters in current television shows and films, queer men and women have changed the face of American popular culture and society for over a century. Ironically, most of the fascinating information, anecdotes, and revealing facts about well-known figures in American culture are virtually unknown to the typical U.S. citizen. Elledge's Queers in American Popular Culture covers a wide variety of historical and current topics that documents how the queer community has been—and continues to be—one of the most significant shapers of American popular culture. Currently, no other book covers queer topics in American popular culture as broadly as this text.

Author : Doctor David Alderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783605146
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Needs and Queer Culture written by Doctor David Alderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist. In recent years, however, lesbian and gay subcultures have become increasingly mainstream and commercialized - as seen, for example, in corporate backing for pride events - while the initial radicalism of sexual liberation has given way to relatively conservative goals over marriage and adoption rights. Meanwhile, queer theory has critiqued this 'homonormativity', or assimilation, as if some act of betrayal had occurred. In Sex, Needs and Queer Culture, David Alderson seeks to account for these shifts in both queer movements and the wider society, and argues powerfully for a distinctive theoretical framework. Through a critical reassessment of the work of Herbert Marcuse, as well as the cultural theorists Raymond Williams and Alan Sinfield, Alderson asks whether capitalism is progressive for queers, evaluates the distinctive radicalism of the counterculture as it has mutated into queer, and distinguishes between avant-garde protest and subcultural development. In doing so, the book offers new directions for thinking about sexuality and its relations to the broader project of human liberation.

Author : Corey K. Creekmur
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315414
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out in Culture written by Corey K. Creekmur and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out in Culture charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments, of mass culture. The essays collected here, combining critical and theoretical works from a cross-section of academics, journalists, and artists, demonstrate a rich variety of gay and lesbian approaches to film, television, popular music, and fashion. This wide-ranging anthology is the first to juxtapose pioneering work in gay and lesbian media criticism with recent essays in contemporary queer cultural studies. Uniquely accessible, Out in Culture presents such popular writers as B. Ruby Rich, Essex Hemphill, and Michael Musto as well as influential critics such as Richard Dyer, Chris Straayer, and Julia Lesage, on topics ranging from the queer careers of Agnes Moorehead and Pee Wee Herman to the cultural politics of gay drag, lesbian style, the visualization of AIDS, and the black snap! queen experience. Of particular interest are two "dossiers," the first linking essays on the queer content of Alfred Hitchcock's films, and the second on the production and reception of popular music within gay and lesbian communities. The volume concludes with an extensive bibliography--the most comprehensive currently available--of sources in gay, lesbian, and queer media criticism. Out in Culture explores the distinctive and original ways in which gays, lesbians, and queers have experienced, appropriated, and resisted the images and artifacts of popular culture. This eclectic anthology will be of interest to a broad audience of general readers and scholars interested in gay and lesbian issues; students of film, media, gender, and cultural studies; and those interested in the emerging field of queer theory. Contributors. Sabrina Barton, Edith Becker, Rhona J. Berenstein, Nayland Blake, Michelle Citron, Danae Clark, Corey K. Creekmur, Alexander Doty, Richard Dyer, Heather Findlay, Jan Zita Grover, Essex Hemphill, John Hepworth, Jeffrey Hilbert, Lucretia Knapp, Bruce La Bruce, Al LaValley, Julia Lesage, Michael Moon, Michael Musto, B. Ruby Rich, Marlon Riggs, Arlene Stein, Chris Straayer, Anthony Thomas, Mark Thompson, Valerie Traub, Thomas Waugh, Patricia White, Robin Wood

Author : Catherine Lord
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714849355
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Queer Culture written by Catherine Lord and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Scott Herring
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814737196
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Country written by Scott Herring and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Another Country' expands the possibilities of queer studies beyond the city limits, investigating the lives of rural queers across the United States, from faeries in the Midwest to lesbian separatist communes on the coast of Northern California.

Author : T.
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349290114
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer Popular Culture written by T. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of queer representations of blackness. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sense of the problems and promise of queer pop culture.

Author : Susan Stryker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gay by the Bay written by Susan Stryker and published by . This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligently written and attractively illustrated and designed, this study of gay and lesbian history culture in San Francisco begins with the cross-dressing practices of 18th-century Native Americans and continues through to the signing of municipal transgender laws in 1995 in the "Gay Capital of the World." Some 300 well-chosen black-and- white and color photos document the history (though none are sexually explicit, there is some nudity). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jack Halberstam
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350459
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queer Art of Failure written by Jack Halberstam and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVProminent queer theorist offers a "low theory" of culture knowledge drawn from popular texts and films./div