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Christopher Pullen's monograph 'Straight Girls and Queer Guys' approaches the titular relationship from a welcome variety of angles. He demonstrates how, as a storytelling trope, the bonds between queer-coded men and explicitly or presumptively heterosexual women have a diverse history across cinema and television. -- Nick Davis, Northwestern University, Evanston, Women's Studies

Friendships between straight girls and queer guys have a rich, complex place in popular culture that is rarely given sustained scholarly attention. In this sharp, original, and wide-ranging book, Christopher Pullen shows us how representations of this unlikely coupling work-and how they matter. -- Professor Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco

'Pullen's book is an important intervention into queer screen culture. In presenting the heteromedia gaze, Pullen offers a reading of how the coupling of straight girls and queer men resist the dominant desiring gaze with a sense of transgression and rebellion, thus offering not only new ways of seeing and reading these texts but also revealing the incomplete continuum of such reading.' --Rohit K. Dasgupta Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 'Christopher Pullen's monograph Straight Girls and Queer Guys approaches the titular relationship from a welcome variety of angles. He demonstrates how, as a storytelling trope, the bonds between queer-coded men and explicitly or presumptively heterosexual women have a diverse history across cinema and television.'--Nick Davis, Northwestern University, Evanston Women's Studies

Christopher Pullen's monograph 'Straight Girls and Queer Guys' approaches the titular relationship from a welcome variety of angles. He demonstrates how, as a storytelling trope, the bonds between queer-coded men and explicitly or presumptively heterosexual women have a diverse history across cinema and television. -- Nick Davis, Northwestern University, Evanston, Women's Studies

"Friendships between straight girls and queer guys have a rich, complex place in popular culture that is rarely given sustained scholarly attention. In this sharp, original, and wide-ranging book, Christopher Pullen shows us how representations of this 'unlikely couplin'"" work - and how they matter.--Professor Joshua Gamson, University of San Francisco Pullen's book is an important intervention into queer screen culture. In presenting the heteromedia gaze, Pullen offers a reading of how the coupling of straight girls and queer men resist the dominant desiring gaze with a sense of transgression and rebellion, thus offering not only new ways of seeing and reading these texts but also revealing the incomplete continuum of such reading.'--Rohit K. Dasgupta ""Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities"" Christopher Pullen's monograph Straight Girls and Queer Guys approaches the titular relationship from a welcome variety of angles. He demonstrates how, as a storytelling trope, the bonds between queer-coded men and explicitly or presumptively heterosexual women have a diverse history across cinema and television.'--Nick Davis, Northwestern University, Evanston ""Women's Studies"""

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Christopher Pullen is an Associate Professor in Media and Inclusivity at Bournemouth University. His books include Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television (Edinburgh University Press 2016), Heroism, Celebrity and Therapy in Nurse Jackie (Routledge 2018), Pedro Zamora, Sexuality and AIDS Education: The Autobiographical Self, Activism and The Real World (Cambria Press 2018), Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media (2012), Queer Youth and Media Cultures (2014), and Queer Love in Television and Film (2013) (co-edited with Pamela Demory).

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