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Queer Youth and Media Cultures

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  • © 2014

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  1. Christopher Pullen

    1. Bournemouth University, UK

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Christopher Pullen
      Pages 1-15

  3. Performance and Culture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Stories like Mine: Coming Out Videos and Queer Identities on YouTube

      • Bryan Wuest
      Pages 19-33

    3. Transgender Youth and YouTube Videos: Self-Representation and Five Identifiable Trans Youth Narratives

      • Matthew G. O’Neill
      Pages 34-45

    4. ‘A Safe and Supportive Environment’: LGBTQ Youth and Social Media

      • Stephen Tropiano
      Pages 46-62

    5. Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence

      • Christopher Pullen
      Pages 63-85

    6. Sexually Marginalized Youth in the South: Narration Strategies and Discourse Coalitions in Newspaper Coverage of a Southern High School Gay-Straight Alliance Club Controversy

      • Skyler Lauderdale
      Pages 86-97

    7. ‘We’ve Got Big News’: Creating Media to Empower Queer Youth in Schools

      • Karyl Ketchum
      Pages 98-112

  4. Histories and Commodity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Talking Liberties: Framed Youth, Community Video and Channel 4’s Remit in Action

      • Ieuan Franklin
      Pages 115-130

    3. We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps

      • Mareike Jenner
      Pages 131-144

    4. Queering TV Conventions: LGBT Teen Narratives on Glee

      • Raffi Sarkissian
      Pages 145-157

    5. Boy Wizards: Magical and Homosocial Power in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Covenant

      • Katherine Hughes
      Pages 158-169

    6. Androgynous Social Media and Visual Culture

      • Stephanie Selvick
      Pages 170-181

    7. Queer Youth Cyber-Bullying and Policing the Self-Brand

      • Taylor Nygaard
      Pages 182-196

    8. Looking at Complicated Desires: Gay Male Youth and Cinematic Representations of Age-Different Relationships

      • Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
      Pages 197-208

  5. Transnational Intersections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Straight Eye for the Queer Guy: Gay Youth in Contemporary Scandinavian Film

      • Anders Lysne
      Pages 211-223

    3. ‘Born This Way’: Media and Youth Identities in Uganda’s Kuchu Community

      • Melanie Butler, Paul Falzone
      Pages 224-238
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About this book

This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online new media. Specific themes of investigation include the context of queer youth suicide and educational strategies to avert this within online new media, and the significance of coming out videos produced online.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bournemouth University, UK

    Christopher Pullen

About the editor

Melanie Butler, Peripheral Vision International Rohit K Dasgupta, University of the Arts London, UK ?dil Engindeniz ?ahan, Galatasaray University, Turkey Paul Falzone, Peripheral Vision International Ieuan Franklin, Bournemouth University, UK Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Texas Christian University, USA Katherine Hughes, ASKlabs Documentary Films, USA Mareike Jenner, Aberystwyth University, UK Michael Johnson Jr., Washington State University, USA Karyl Ketchum, California State University, Fullerton, USA Skyler Lauderdale, University of South Florida, USA Anders Lysne, University of Oslo, Norway Taylor Nygaard, University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, USA Matthew G. O'Neill, Queens University of Belfast, UK Christopher Pullen, Bournemouth University, UK Raffi Sarkissian, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, USA Stephanie M. Selvick, World Literature at Utica College, New York, USA Stephen Tropiano, Ithaca College Los Angeles Program, USA Noah Tsika, Queens College, City University of New York, USA Bryan Wuest, UCLA, USA

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