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Author:   Kylo-Patrick R. Hart
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9781476664408

ISBN 10:   1476664404
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   10 June 2016
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction: Media Representation and Sensitive Subjects (Kylo-Patrick R. Hart) Gay It Forward: How Will & Grace Made Gay Male Couples Okay on Television (Zachary Snider) Skeletons in the Closet: The Contradictory Views of the Queer in the Works of Joss Whedon (Don Tresca) Beyond Golden Gardenias: Versions of ­Same-Sex Marriage in Queer as Folk (Gael Sweeney) We’re Here, We’re Queer—and We’re Better Than You: The Representational Superiority of Gay Men to Heterosexuals on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Kylo-Patrick R. Hart) From Good to Bad Stories: Examining the Narrative of Pregnancy in The L Word as a Means to Teach and Destabilize Queerness (Anna Ciamparella) The Stylized Image of the White Lesbian: A Model Minority (Renee DeLong) Digital Drag: Queer Potentiality in the Age of Digital Television (Looi van Kessel) Gay Fathers in Modern Family and The New Normal: Class, Consumption, Sexuality and Parenting (Julia Erhart) Brothers in Arms: Spartacus, Historical Television and the Celebration of Queer Masculinity (Thomas J. West III) Leonardo’s Paradoxical Queerness: Da Vinci’s Demons and the Politics of Straightwashing (Dragos Manea) Racial Homophily and Homogeneity as ­Post-Racial Commodification in BrokeStraightBoys.tv (Michael Johnson, Jr.) Sexploitation on YouTube: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Gay Network (Bridget Kies) About the Contributors Index

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Kylo-Patrick R. Hart is chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University. He is the founding co-editor of the academic journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture and the author of several books about media.

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