Critical queer studies
Subtitle: queer life in law, film, and fiction
By: by Casey Charles
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781409444060; 9781409444077
Subjects: Violence against; Gay rights; Law and legislation; Transgender youth; Homosexuality; Legal status, laws; Gays; Homophobia; Hate crimes
Description: "Critical Queer Studies examines contemporary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and queer life, analyzing the effects of legal doctrine--jury selection, unwanted sexual advance, negligence, hate crimes, and gay marriage--on the production and reception of queer film and fiction."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A jury of one's queers : revisiting the Dan White trial; title: Panic in the project; title: Queer torts : gender trans-gression in the Brandon Teena case; title: The imagined power : the specter of hate crime in Brokeback Mountain; title: Queer exposures : making the reel real in Van Sant's Milk; title: Conclusion : toward a queer political aesthetic.