Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media

Zusatztext "[Pullen's] numerous references to and discussion of popular culture will be accessible to a wider audience interested in media studies! gay and lesbian culture! and the social sciences." - CHOICE Informationen zum Autor CHRISTOPHER PULLEN is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. Heis the author of Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007). His research interests relate to the representation and performance of minority identity within contemporary media, and contexts of gender and sexuality. Klappentext This critical introduction to gay and lesbian identity within the media explores the concept of 'new storytelling'. The case studies look at film, television and online media, focussing on the narrative potential of individual storytellers who, as producers, writers and performers, challenge identity concerns and offer new expressions of liberty. Zusammenfassung This critical introduction to gay and lesbian identity within the media explores the concept of 'new storytelling'. The case studies look at film! television and online media! focussing on the narrative potential of individual storytellers who! as producers! writers and performers! challenge identity concerns and offer new expressions of liberty. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Placing the Self Within the Frame New Storytelling: Transitions from the Past Gay Identity and Self-Reflexivity Community, History and Transformation Factual Media Space: Intimacy, Participation and Therapy Commodity and Family Teenage Identity and Ritual Other Storytelling and the New Frontier Conclusion: Fragmentation and Cohesion Notes  Filmography Works Cited Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: C Pullen, C. Pullen, Christopher Pullen, Pullen Christopher
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 26.05.2009
• EAN: 9780230553439
• ISBN: 978-0-230-55343-9
• Seiten: 280
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Fotografie, Film, Video, TV; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung; B, Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Communication, Society & culture: general, Media and Communication, Media Research, Industries, Media Sociology, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Industry & industrial studies, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Film and Television Studies, Screen Studies, Motion pictures and television, Industry and industrial studies, film;identity;media;Online;television;media research