Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom

Name: Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom
SKU: 9780822327387
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Author: Michael DeAngelis
ISBN: 9780822327387

James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

AvMichael DeAngelis

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Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom Michael DeAngelis responds to these questions with a provocative analysis of three famous actors-James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves. In the process, he traces a fifty-year history of audience reception that moves gay male fandom far beyond the realm of “camp” to places where culturally unauthorized fantasies are nurtured, developed, and shared. DeAngelis examines a variety of cultural documents, including studio publicity and promotional campaigns, star biographies, scandal magazines, and film reviews, as well as gay political and fan literature that ranges from the closeted pages of One and Mattachine Review in the 1950s to the very “out” dish columns, listserv postings, and on-line star fantasy narratives of the past decade. At the heart of this close historical study are treatments of particular film narratives, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, The Road Warrior, Lethal Weapon, My Own Private Idaho, and Speed. Using theories of fantasy and melodrama, Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom demonstrates how studios, agents, and even stars themselves often actively facilitate an audience’s strategic blurring of the already tenuous distinction between the heterosexual mainstream and the gay margins of American popular culture.In addition to fans of James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves, those interested in film history, cultural studies, popular culture, queer theory, gender studies, sociology, psychoanalytic theory, melodrama, fantasy, and fandom will enjoy this book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2001-08-15
Mått152 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822327387

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“An important contribution to star studies, one distinguished by the way that it convincingly brings together queer theory, cultural studies, and close textual analysis.”-Steven Cohan, author of Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties “What is James Dean’s appeal for generations of queer men? How did Mel Gibson win, and then alienate, a gay audience? What is behind Keanu Reeves’s sexual ambiguity? You will discover the answers to these, and many other, provocative questions about male stars and their male fans in Michael DeAngelis’s sharply argued and wonderfully written Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom.”-Alex Doty, author of Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon “[DeAngelis] never loses sight of fandom’s immoderate pleasures.” (Sight & Sound) "DeAngelis has been diligent in researching star biographies, film reviews, studio publicity and promotional campaigns, as well as straight and gay fan literature." - Anthony Elliott (The Australian) "DeAngelis probes the connections between identification and desire. He shows how studio publicity, fan web sites, and ‘dish’ columns reflect changing attitudes toward gay icons, from Dean’s ‘in and out’ sexuality to Gibson’s heterosexuality to Reeves’s ‘panaccessibility.’ Although DeAngelis focuses on these three stars, the wider implications of his arguments merit consideration in a larger context . . . . His argument is clear and concise, leaving room for continuing debate on audience response, criticism, and popular films. Highly recommended for film studies on gay-audience response." (Library Journal) "I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone interested in the construction of queer identities, the negotiatory process of fandom and the star's management and negotiation of that fan attention." - Kerry Gough (Scope)