LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media [electronic resource] /
Pullen, Christopher.author.
Pullen, Christopher,1959-
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Politics and Citizenship; 1 LGBT Transnational Documentary "Becoming"; 2 Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television; 3 Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom?; 4 Sub-Saharan African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness; 5 The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Postapartheid Identities
6 The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage7 The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api; Part II Adaptation and Postcolonial Transitions; 8 Queer (Im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany's and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian Building; 9 Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the "Leading Aberrant": Early Gay Narratives in the British Media; 10 The Exotic Erotic: Queer Representations in the Context of Postcolonial Ethnicity on British TV; 11 Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in Khush and Happy Hookers
12 Screening Queer India in Pratibha Parmar's KhushPart III Performance and Subjectivity; 13 Gay Pornography as Latin American Queer Hist oriography; 14 Quo Vadis, Queer Vato? Queer and Loathing in Latino Cinema; 15 Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutlug Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001); 16 The Drag Queers the S/He Binary: Subversion of Heteronormativity in Turkish Context; 17 If Art Imitated Reality: George Takei, Coming Out, and the Insufferably Straight Star Trek Universe
18 A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou YeIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.
Sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Communication.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Media Studies.
Media Research.