Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach isput forward,revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.
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Acknowledgements |
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Preface |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Introduction |
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Part I Politics and Citizenship |
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1 LGBT Transnational Documentary "Becoming" |
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2 Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television |
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3 Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom? |
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4 Sub-Saharan African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness |
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5 The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Postapartheid Identities |
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6 The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage |
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7 The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api |
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Part II Adaptation and Postcolonial Transitions |
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8 Queer (Im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany's and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian Building |
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9 Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the "Leading Aberrant": Early Gay Narratives in the British Media |
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10 The Exotic Erotic: Queer Representations in the Context of Postcolonial Ethnicity on British TV |
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11 Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in Khush and Happy Hookers |
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12 Screening Queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush |
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Part III Performance and Subjectivity |
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13 Gay Pornography as Latin American Queer Historiography |
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14 Quo Vadis, Queer Vato? Queer and Loathing in Latino Cinema |
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15 Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutlug Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001) |
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16 The Drag Queers the S/He Binary: Subversion of Heteronormativity in Turkish Context |
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17 If Art Imitated Reality: George Takei, Coming Out, and the Insufferably Straight Star Trek Universe |
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18 A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye |
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REBECCA BEIRNELecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia SAHAR BLUCKworks in production for a creative advertising agency PERI BRADLEY Associate Lecturer in Film and TV at Southampton Solent University and University of Southampton, UK CUNYET CAKIRLAR Research Associate in the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK MARGARET COOPER Sociologist at Southern Illinois University, USA BRUCE DRUSHELAssistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Miami University, USA SERKAN ERTIN Currently teaching at the Western Languages and Literatures Department, Kocaeli University, Turkey DANIEL FARRIndependent Scholar living and working in Lynchburg, USA JENNIFER GAUTHIERAssociate Professor of Communication Studies at Randolph College in Virginia, USA SAMAR HABIB Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley's Beatrice Bain Research Group and a visiting Professor at San Francisco State, USA
DAVID OSCAR HARVEYPhD candidate in the department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA ANDREW HOCK SOON NGSenior Lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Malaysia JASON HO KA-HANGTeaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong KATE HOULDENPhD graduate in the English Department of Queen Mary, University of London, UK STEPHANIE SELVICKPhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Miami, Florida, USA GUSTAVO SUBEROSenior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Coventry University, UK RICHARD REITSMAAssistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA BRYCE J. RENNINGERPhD candidate in the Media Studies program at Rutgers University, USA ERNST VAN DER WALLecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa