LGBT transnational identity and the media /

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Imprint:Basingstoke, Hampshire, [U.K.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Description:xviii, 313 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8923626
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Other authors / contributors:Pullen, Christopher, 1959-
ISBN:9780230301061 (hbk.)
0230301061 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Politics and Citizenship
  • 1. LGBT Transnational Documentary "Becoming"
  • 2. Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television
  • 3. Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom?
  • 4. Sub-Saharan African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness
  • 5. The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Postapartheid Identities
  • 6. The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage
  • 7. The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api
  • Part II. Adaptation and Postcolonial Transitions
  • 8. Queer (Im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany's and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian Building
  • 9. Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the "Leading Aberrant": Early Gay Narratives in the British Media
  • 10. The Exotic Erotic: Queer Representations in the Context of Postcolonial Ethnicity on British TV
  • 11. Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in Khush and Happy Hookers
  • 12. Screening Queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush
  • Part III. Performance and Subjectivity
  • 13. Gay Pornography as Latin American Queer Historiography
  • 14. Quo Vadis, Queer Vato? Queer and Loathing in Latino Cinema
  • 15. Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutlug Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001)
  • 16. The Drag Queers the S/He Binary: Subversion of Heteronormativity in Turkish Context
  • 17. If Art Imitated Reality: George Takei, Coming Out, and the Insufferably Straight Star Trek Universe
  • 18. A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye
  • Index