1st Edition
Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity
By Dustin Bradley Goltz
Copyright 2010
208 Pages
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Routledge
204 Pages
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Routledge
204 Pages
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Routledge
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Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon "young" gay male bodies, while devaluing health, aging, and longevity. Alienated from the future --... Read more
Acknowledgments 1: Introduction: "Deleted Scenes" and "Innocent Questions" 2: The Heteronormative Tragedy: Kenneth Burke and Queer Media Criticism 3: Victims in/of Time: Gay Aging as Ritualized Horror 4: Future Identification: Symbolic Mergers with Heteronormativity 5: The Dinner Party: Queer Gesturing to Time and Future Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Dustin Bradley Goltz is Assistant Professor in the College of Communication, DePaul University.
