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Queer Popular Culture

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  • © 2011

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  1. Thomas Peele
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Popular Culture, Queer Culture

    • Thomas Peele
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Three Phases of Ellen: From Queer to Gay to Postgay

    • Jennifer Reed
    Pages 9-26

  4. Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah’s Arc

    • Gust A. Yep, John P. Elia
    Pages 27-40

  5. All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley

    • Cathy Leaker
    Pages 41-55

  6. Queer as Folk and the Spectacularization of Gay Identity

    • Giovanni Porfido
    Pages 57-69

  7. Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and Politics in The L Word

    • Aviva Dove-Viebahn
    Pages 71-83

  8. “Reading for It”: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience

    • Sheila Liming
    Pages 85-102

  9. Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

    • Wendy Hsu
    Pages 103-117

  10. Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture

    • Amalia Ziv
    Pages 119-135

  11. Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films

    • Sharif Mowlabocus
    Pages 137-149

  12. Straight Shooters, Stainless-Steel Stories, and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World

    • Christopher Le Coney, Zoe Trodd
    Pages 151-167

  13. New Queer White Trash Cinema

    • Daniel Mudie Cunningham
    Pages 169-182

  14. Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West

    • Mark McHarry
    Pages 183-195

  15. Why (not) Queer?: Ambivalence about “Politics” and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan

    • Terri He
    Pages 197-213

  16. Reconfiguring Differences: Radicalizing Popular Culture Pedagogy

    • Laura Gray-Rosendale, Kendra Birnley
    Pages 215-227

  17. Queering Harry Potter

    • Jill R. Ehnenn
    Pages 229-256

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 257-262
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About this book

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.

About the authors

Thomas Peele is Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches graduate classes in cultural studies and rhetorical theory, and undergraduate classes in non-fiction writing and new media.

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