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Hetero

Queering Representations of Straightness

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Uncovers the queer nature of heterosexuality on film.Just as feminist scholars have turned to considerations of masculinity and scholars of race have begun to consider whiteness as a category, this collection brings the insights of queer theory to bear on cinematic representations of straightness. Spanning decades and cultures, from silent Hollywood films to modern Mumbai cinema, the essays in Hetero uncover multiple forms of heterosexual desire and demonstrate that heterosexuality is in fact a heavily contested terrain. Movies often become a place where one specific "heteronormative" ideal is upheld as proper, while other types of heterosexuality are denied or pathologized. By investigating how heterosexuality functions as a social construct, these essays deconstruct normative heterosexuality's simultaneous omnipresence and invisibility, effectively breaking down the barriers of sexual identity. Hetero offers a collective call to expand the ways in which queer theory is applied and put into practical use, and exposes the queer nature of the love that does dare speak its name.

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Utgivningsdatum2009-05-07
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
Antal sidor278
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438426174

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List of IllustrationsIntroductionSean Griffin 1. Stop the Wedding! William Haines and the Comedy of the ClosetVictoria Sturtevant2. Flirting with Hetero Diversity: Film Promotion of A Free SoulMary Beth Haralovich3. "Pintele" Queer: The Performance of Jewish Male Heterosexuality in Yiddish American Cinema of the Great DepressionDavid Lugowski4. Straight Heroes with Queer Inclinations: Male Film Stars in the Swedish 1930sLouise Wallenberg5. Putting ’Em Down Like a Man: Eleanor Powell and the Spectacle of CompetenceAdrienne L. McLean6. Turned Inside/Out: Violent Inversions of Heterosexuality in Vincente Minnelli’s Home from the HillDavid A. Gerstner7. Mispronouncing "Man and Wife": The Fate of Marriage in Hollywood’s Sexual RevolutionMichael DeAngelis8. Hetero-nation: Toward a "New and Improved" Global Public ImageBhaskar Sarkar9. Time Crisis and the New Postfeminist Heterosexual EconomyDiane Negra10. "Are You Saying My Son Is a Bitch Boy?": The Perilously Achieved Hegemonic Masculinity of Ben StillerKevin Heffernan11. "Fuck Boy Meets Girl": Heterosexual Aspirations and Masculine Interests in the World of Quentin TarantinoAllan Campbell12. A Straight Cowboy Movie: Heterosexuality According to Brokeback MountainHarry M. BenshoffWorks CitedList of ContributorsIndex

"This book proves that the analytical tools of queer theory are substantial and revelatory and should not be ghettoized to films that feature gay or transgendered characters." — CHOICE"By bringing the lessons of queer theory to the analysis of representations of heterosexuality, this book demonstrates that 'hetero' is as complex a category as 'homo.'" — Kristen Hatch, University of California, Irvine

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