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Making Things Perfectly Queer - Interpreting Mass Culture (Paperback)
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Making Things Perfectly Queer - Interpreting Mass Culture (Paperback)
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As a concept, "queerness" describes a cultural common ground
between gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and other non-straights, but it
also suggests a diverse and often uncategorizable cultural space
that is everywhere in mass culture. Whether recognized or denied,
queerness is an approach to mass culture that is shared by people
with every kind of sexual self-definition. In "Making Things
Perfectly Queer", Alexander Doty argues that films, television, and
other forms of mass culture consistently elicit a wide range of
queer responses, and suggests a framework for interpreting mass
culture that stands as a corrective for many standard cultural
approaches. Doty demonstrates how queer readings can be - and are -
performed by examining star images like "Jack Benny" and "Pee-wee
Herman", women-centered sitcoms like "Laverne and Shirley" and
"Designing Women", film directors like George Cukor and Dorothy
Arzner, and genres like the musical. In developing these readings,
he suggests that queerness, not straightness, just might be the
most pervasive sexual dynamic at work in mass culture production
and reception.
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