LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media

By Christopher Pullen

Book Overview

List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface Introduction; C.Pullen PART I: POLITICS & CITIZENSHIP LGBT Transnational Documentary 'Becoming'; C.Pullen Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television; S.Habib & R.Beirne Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom?; S.Bluck Sub-Sahara African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness; D.O.Harvey The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Post-Apartheid Identities; E.Van Der Wal The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage; M.Cooper The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api; A.Hock Soon Ng PART II: ADAPTATION & POST COLONIAL TRANSITIONS Queer (Im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian Building; S.Selvick Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the 'Leading Aberrant': Early Gay Narratives in the British Media; K.Houlden The Exotic Erotic: Queer Representations in the context of post-colonial ethnicity on British TV; P.Bradley Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in Khush and Happy Hookers; B.J.Renninger Screening Queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush; D.Farr & J.Gauthier PART III: PERFORMANCE & SUBJECTIVITY Gay pornography as Latin American queer his/toriography; G.Subero Quo Vadis, Queer Vato? Queer and Loathing in Latino Cinema; R.Reitsma Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutlug Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001); C.?akirlar The Drag Queers the S/He Binary: Subversion of Heteronormativity in Turkish Context; S.Eertin If Art Imitated Reality: George Takei, Coming Out, And The Insufferably Straight Star Trek Universe; B.E.Drushel A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye; J.Ho Ka-Hang Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349336742
• ISBN13: 9781349336746
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"