This is an excellent and timely book that makes a valuable contribution to the field of bisexual studies. The range of genres covered in this book, and the ways in which authors have been able to site their discussions in similar theoretical ground (liminality, erasure, stereotypes) without the discussions ever feeling repetitive, is impressive. Instead, each chapter sheds new light on these complex topics. This book will be essential reading for academics, students, and general audiences seeking to make sense of the ways in which bisexuality is represented in popular culture. - Dr Helen Bowes-Catton, Senior Lecturer, The Open University, UK
This book explores the multifaceted representations of bisexuality within the cultural imagination, focusing on how bisexuality is portrayed and understood through literature, television, and media. By examining these diverse forms, this collection addresses the critical need to understand bisexualitys crucial role in shaping societal perceptions of sexual identity.
Bisexuality and Popular Culture considers how bisexuality disrupts traditional binaries and offers new frameworks for understanding bisexual identity.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Bisexual (In)Visibility and/in Popular
Culture.
Chapter 2: Reading Bisexual Stereotypes: Liminal Tricksters, Greedy
Sluts, and Bisexual Audience Perspectives.
Chapter 3: Bisexual Spaces,
Trauma, and the Healing Potential of Pop Culture.
Chapter 4: The Bi Who
Loved Me: Bi-Erotic Possibilities in Ian Flemings James Bond Novels.-
Chapter 5: Missing Between the Margins: Bisexuality and Sexual Power Dynamics
in Madeline Millers The Song of Achilles.
Chapter 6: Trauma, Guilt, and
Commitment: Deconstructive Bisexuality and Queer Desire in Hanya Yanagiharas
A Little Life.
Chapter 7: No Sex Please, Were Bi: Young Adult Literature
and the Wholesome, Monosexy Bisexual in Heartstopper and Imogen, Obviously.-
Chapter 8: Gay, Queer, or Dimensional?: Modes of Reading Bisexuality
in Torchwood.
Chapter 9: Mainstreaming Bisexuality since Orange is the New
Black: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Bisexual, and Beyond.
Chapter 10: (Un)seen
and (Un)spoken: The Challenge of Representing Bisexuality and Multiraciality
in Grown-ish.
Chapter 11: Sniffing out a Psycho: An Analysis of Bisexual
Representation in Killing Eve.
Chapter 12: Bisexual Spaces and Fantasy
Realms in The Owl House and Adventure Time.
Chapter 13: Bi the Players
Handbook: Representations and Receptions of Bisexuality in Critical Role
Campaigns.
Ian Kinane is Reader in Literature and Popular Culture and Director of the Centre for Society, Culture, and Social Change at the University of Roehampton, UK. His books include On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction (2024), Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence (2021), Isn't it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture (2021), Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade (2019), Theorising Literary Islands (2016), and (with Downey and Parker) Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place (2016). He is also the general editor of the online, open-access International Journal of James Bond Studies and the editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Ian Fleming.
