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Perverse Spectators: The Practices of Film Reception

Janet Staiger - Social Science - 2000 - 248 pages
Film and television have never been more prevalent or watched than they are now, yet we still have little understanding of how people process and make use of what they see. And ...
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Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema

Matthew Tinkcom - Performing Arts - 2002 - 244 pages
DIVRather than seeing camp as a mode of reception, a way of reading straight popular culture, Tinkcom sees it as an intentional product of gay men within the film industry./div
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Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction

Andy Medhurst, Sally Munt - Gay and lesbian studies - 1997 - 424 pages
A major new publication in lesbian and gay studies, this accessible textbook comprises newly-commissioned essays from a rich cross-section of international scholars. The book's ...
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Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories

Diana Fuss - Literary Criticism - 2013 - 424 pages
Lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out," to "acting up," to "outing," meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out ...
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The Queer Encyclopedia of Film & Television

Claude J. Summers - Performing Arts - 2005 - 314 pages
How did Liberace's costumes kill him? Which lesbian comedian spent her high school years as 'the best white cheerleader in Detroit'? For these answers and many more, fans can ...
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Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability

Patricia White - Performing Arts - 1999 - 302 pages
Lesbian characters, stories, and images were barred from onscreen depiction in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s together with all forms of "sex perversion." Through ...
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Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject : a Reader

Fabio Cleto - Art - 1999 - 542 pages
The complete guide to c& an anthology of the best writing on its history and current theory in cultural studies and lesbian and gay studies
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Cross-Purposes: Lesbians, Feminists, and the Limits of Alliance

Dana A. Heller - Social Science - 1997 - 252 pages
"... innovative and important thinking about the various relations between feminist theory, queer theory, and lesbian theory, as well as the possibility that liberation can be ...
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