Media / Queered
Subtitle: Visibility and Its Discontents
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Published: August 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780820495330
Subjects: Media Studies; Gay Studies; Popular Culture - General; Social Science; Sociology; Mass media and gays
Description: Media Queered is a groundbreaking assessment of minorities and the media. Authorities including Larry Gross, Edward Alwood, Lisa Henderson, and Marguerite Moritz join several new scholars to examine four aspects of visibility: history, expertise, popularity, and technology. To supplement this research, media practitioners including journalists working in the gay and mainstream press contribute a unique series of interludes. The first is by Studs Terkel, who interviewed founders of the U.S. homophile movement. Written for scholars, students, and instructors of media and gender studies, Media Queered is also accessible for general readers intrigued by the recent flowering of queer characters, themes, and images in popular culture.