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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 273 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x14 mm, kaal: 367 g, 25 photos, appendices, filmography, notes, bibliography, index
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2007
  • Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0786428074
  • ISBN-13: 9780786428076
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 273 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 229x152x14 mm, kaal: 367 g, 25 photos, appendices, filmography, notes, bibliography, index
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2007
  • Kirjastus: McFarland & Co Inc
  • ISBN-10: 0786428074
  • ISBN-13: 9780786428076
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This book charts an evolution in gay identity within American reality television and documentary film. Through focusing on the performative potential of gay men, it examines the emergence of the independent gay citizen as a bold new voice rejecting subjugation within the media. Through examining productions as diverse as An American Family, Tongues United, Silverlake Life, The Real World, Paternal Instinct, Trembling Before G-D, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and many others, this book explores how gay people as teens, devoted couples, parents, inspiring individuals and influential producers have contributed to the progression of gay identity in domestic arenas. These portrayals are played out while discussing AIDS, race, religion, the development of same-sex family forms, the issues of procreation and gay marriage and the changing views of gay men as both creative producers and responsible social agents. In these forms of entertainment, gay social actors as political agents challenge dominant ideas, and invent new social worlds.

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compelling...persuasive and informative...clear...breadth of material...makes this book especially enjoyable and engaging...an enjoyable read...suitable for courses examining issues of sexuality, gay men, and the mediaJournal of Popular Culture; a reminder of how amazingly far we have come since the early 1970s. This isnt a history of oppression or alienation but of their opposite: the power of visibilityThe Advocate; deserves a space on your shelfScarlett; attempts to move away from stereotypes, as well as to balance media studies of gay (men) and Lesbian(women) subjects, which have been strongly tilted toward the latter...explor[ es] developments in both media over the past three decades...examination...helps to demonstrate the growing social change in perception concerning personal identity, again especially in family termsCommunication Booknotes Quarterly.

Acknowledgments vii
Preface 1
Introduction 5
1. Constructing Identity, the Politics of Representation, and the American Son 25
2. Performance-and Documentary: Power, Carnival, Confession and Opposition 53
3. Autobiography and Confessional Performance in Documentary: Politics, AIDS and Family 85
4. Documenting Youth Identity and The Real World: Testaments, Role Models and Romantic Narratives 116
5. Nonheterosexual Family Forms: Affirmation, Race and Religion 139
6. Gay Performers and Discursive Performativity: Alliances, Community and Competition 164
7. Reproduction and Commodity: Family, Marriage and Service 187
Conclusion: The Move to the Domestic 214
Filmography 225
Appendix
1. White House Press Release		 235
Appendix
2. A Typology of Modes of Individual Adaptation by Robert K. Merton		 236
Chapter Notes 237
Bibliography 245
Index 257


Christopher Pullen is a Senior Lecturer in Media, Gender and Performance at Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. His articles and essays on gay identity have appeared in several publications.