Feeling normal : sexuality and media criticism in the digital age /

Feeling normal : sexuality and media criticism in the digital age /

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Author / Creator:	Griffin, F. Hollis, author.
Imprint:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	xi, 190 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Sexual minorities in mass media. Digital media -- Social aspects. Mass media -- Social aspects. Digital media -- Social aspects. Mass media -- Social aspects. Sexual minorities in mass media.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10992926

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ISBN:	9780253024473 0253024471 9780253024558 0253024552
Notes:	Includes bibliography and index.
Summary:	The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of thinking about that phenomenon. By examining urban centers in tandem with advertiser-supported newspapers, New Queer Cinema and B-movies, queer-targeted television, and mobile apps, Griffin illustrates how new forms of LGBT media are less "new" than we often believe. He connects cities and LGBT media through the experiences they can make available to people, which Griffin articulates as feelings, emotions, and affects. He illuminates how the limitations of these experiences--while not universally accessible, nor necessarily empowering--are often the very reasons why people find them compelling and desirable.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Cities as affective convergences
The aesthetics of banality after new queer cinema
Cable TV, commodity activism, and corporate synergy (or lack thereof)
Toward a queerer criticism of television
Wanting something online
Afterword: #LoveWins.