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Informationen zum Autor Kylo-Patrick R. Hart is chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at Texas Christian University, where he teaches courses in film and television history, theory, and criticism and queer media studies. He is the founding co-editor of the academic journal Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture and the author of several books about media. Klappentext In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer teens, and others. Throughout, this book continually reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of "normalcy," "deviance," and "social otherness" in ways that frequently have real-and sometimes detrimental-effects on actual people. Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema provides perceptive insights for students and academics interested in film history, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies, popular culture, and LGBT studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForeword by Hollis GriffinAcknowledgmentsPreface Part I: Latent RepresentationsChapter 1: The Love Between Warden and Prew That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Containing Homosexuality as Subtext in From Here to EternityChapter 2: Gay Male Spectatorship, Textual Flexibility, and Mainstream American CinemaPart II: Manifest RepresentationsChapter 3: "Out of the Closets and Into the Shadows": Cruising with the Boys in the BandChapter 4: Queering the Teen Movie: Exploring Groundbreaking Representations of Non-Heterosexual Adolescents in Gregg Araki's Teen-Apocalypse TrilogyChapter 5: Gay Men, Self-Representation, and AIDS DocumentariesChapter 6: When Style Becomes Substance: The Form and Function of a Rap Aesthetic in the AIDS Movie Chocolate BabiesChapter 7: Increasing Visi(bi)lity: Bisexual Men in Contemporary U.S. CinemaChapter 8: Transamerican Cinema: Representing Gender Dysphoria on FilmChapter 9: Retrograde Storytelling or Queer Cinematic Triumph? The (Not So) Groundbreaking Qualities of the Film Brokeback MountainChapter 10: Back to the Future: Queer Representations and the Films of John Cameron MitchellBibliographyFilmographyIndex About the Author...