Queering the South on Screen (Paperback)

Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Southern queers on screen often reflect the fantasy of cultural stereotypes. Editor Tison Pugh contends that when southern queers appear in films and on television, and when southern queers watch these portrayals, the inherent contradictions of these cultural depictions reveal the fault lines of gender, geography, and desire. These underlying schisms point to the infinite, if infrequently portrayed, possibilities of actual queer southern life. Examining a range of materials, including gothic horror films and drag queens on public-access television, the contributors show that queer southerners have always expressed desires for distinctiveness in the making and consumption of visual media. Read together, the introduction and twelve chapters deconstruct premeditated labels of identity such as queer and southern. In doing so, they expose the reflexive nature of these labels to construct ideological fantasies of southerners regardless of the complexity of their lives.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The South on Screen Series
Release date:	February 2020
Editors:	Tison Pugh
Contributors:	Eric G. Anderson • Ted Atkinson • R Bruce Brasell • Scott Combs • Darren Elliott-Smith • Joe Edward Hatfield • David Markus • Margaret T McGehee • D Matthew Ramsey
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-5672-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > General
LSN:	0-8203-5672-7
Barcode:	9780820356723

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