1st Edition
Straight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Fabricated Screens: Sexual Authenticity, Flamboyant Masquerade,
and the Queer Epistemology of Pretending-to-be-gay Films.
Acting Gay, Mediating Stereotypes
Faking Faggotry, Negotiating Perversities
Strange Bedfellows and Their Melodramatic Straightness
Flamboyant Deceivers in a Performative Thirdspace
Chapter 1
Staging Effeminacy: Screening the Perilous Pleasures of Pretending to be a Sissy
Popularity Breeds Contempt: Extravagant Homosexuality and Its Perilous Effeminate Pleasures
The Gay Deceivers Enjoying a Slice of Festive Life
Victorious Diva and Defeated Old Queen
Perilous Heterosexual Pleasures and the Politics of Homeovestism in Homo Land
Metrosexual Straightness, Theatricalized Heteronormativity, and Straight Eye for the Queer Guys
Masculinist Straightness, Theatricalized Homophobia and Campy Guilty Pleasures
The Power of Fantasy: Football, Balls and Mirror Balls in a Pinky Macho Land
Saving Straight Loves: Phallic Anxieties, Promiscuous Gay Deceivers and Authentic Closets
Straight Drama Queens, Flamboyant Machismo and Gay Infatuation in a Deceptive Fashion
The Fabricator's Heart Belongs to Fabric in a Queer Fashion
Towards Effeminate Authenticity
Chapter 2
Take It Like a Man: Cruising Machismo in Leatherland
Cruising the Controversy
A Voyeuristic Disguise and a Voracious Gaze of Cannibalistic Culture Industry
Undisguised Demonization of Gay Sadomasochistic Pleasures
Disguising Sexual Authenticities and Subversions
The Gay Dungeon as Stimulating Cabinet of Curiosities
Reclaiming Authentic Disguise in Interior. Leather Bar
Chapter 3
Pretending to Be Allies? Straight Women, Their Pretending-to-Be-Gay Admirers and Sexual Authentication
Fag-hagging (and Hugging) Sedgwick's Angst
The Sexual Pleasures of the Fag Hag and Her Gay Partner
From Fag Hag to Fag Fuck: Unmasking Authentic Desires
The Queer Hypersexualization of the Pomosexual Latina
Lessons in Effeminacy, Faggotry and Fag-Haggery
The Real Man and His (Un)masked Heteronormative Desire
The Joy of Gayness and the Fear of Homosexuality
Pretending-to-Be-Gay Inside and Outside the Patriarchal Order
Gay Performativity and Mimetic Desire
Working Like a Proustian Homosexual in the Fields of Heteroflexibility, Intercorporality, and Inter-pretense
The Fag Hag as Director and Moderator of Sexual Authentication
Chapter 4
Odd Couples, Queer Partnerships and Gay Marriages in Pretending-to-Be-Gay Films
Teaching Faggotry, Learning to Flame
Two Erics, One Faggotry
Dropping the Soap in a World of Disguise and Disgust
Grotesque Masquerade and Ludicrous Authenticities
Flamboyant Gayness and Grotesque Homophobia
Dis/played Intimacy between Real Men and Their Absent Gay Kiss
Straightforwardness for the Straight Eye
Chapter 5
Screening Compulsory Homosexuality: The Perilous Pleasures of Parodying Heteronormativity and Fantasizing a Topsy-Turvy
Martyrdom
Voracious Carnivals and Cannibalistic Masquerades
Realistic Gay Bashing and Surrealistic Salvations
Pretending-to-be-gay as Perilous Parody
Straights Don't Cry and Heterosexualities Are Never Queer?
Delusive Happiness and New Martyrdom in a Perfect Gay World
Unmasking the Particularities and Subtleties of Queer Martyrdom .
Hopelessly Devoted "Heteros" and Their Gay Tormentors
The Guilty Pleasures of Screening Dichotomized Alternate Gay Worlds
Afterword
When Gay Masks Gaze at the Deceiver's Straight Skin:
The Grotesque Screening of Deceptive Horrors and Delights
Deforming Mirrors and Sincere Anxieties
The Terrorizing Mask and Its New Erotic Pleasures
References
Filmography
Index
Biography
Dr. Gilad Padva is a film, popular culture, men’s studies and queer theory scholar. He is the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014) and co-editor of Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye (2014), Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2017) and Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society (2020). He also publishes extensively in international academic journals, international collections and international encyclopedias. He currently teaches men’s studies and popular culture at the Program for Women and Gender Studies with the NCJW at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
