Listmember book announcement: Queer Love in Film and Television

From: Pamela Demory <[email protected]>

QUEER LOVE IN FILM AND TELEVISION: CRITICAL ESSAYS
Co-edited By Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen

This turn-of-the-century moment -- when queer love has become increasingly
visible in both popular culture and socio-political realms -- provides an
ideal occasion for a critical examination of same-sex love stories in the
media. Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years
before and after the millennium, the essays collected in Queer Love in Film
and Television ask how recent films and television programs play with,
imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative
conventions so common in Western culture. The collection follows the
trajectory of the conventional romance narrative, from the pursuit of
romantic love to the creation of families, and then it pushes further, into
marginal regions where conventional narratives fail to venture, and then
turns back to consider how that narrative is itself transformed (or
queered) through adaptation.

PRAISE FOR QUEER LOVE IN FILM AND TELEVISION:
"Influenced by the major queer theorists, the varied and provocative essays
collected in Queer Love in Film and Television challenge our thinking about
the ways in which gay and lesbian sex and love have been presented in film
and on television over the past two decades, from Modern Family to The L
Word, and from Brokeback Mountain to gay porn. Along the way, crucial
questions are asked about the validity of conventional romantic narratives
as vehicles for presenting queer relationships, and the possibility of
queer love. "
-- John M. Clum, author of The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight
Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present (2011), Something for the Boys:
Musical Theater and Gay Culture (2001), and Still Acting Gay: Male
Homosexuality in Modern Drama (2000)

ABOUT THE EDITORS:
*Pamela Demory is Continuing Lecturer in the University Writing Program at
the University of California, Davis, USA. She has published numerous
articles on topics in film adaptation in journals such as Literature/Film
Quarterly, Short Story Criticism, and others.
*Christopher Pullen is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth
University, UK. He is the author of Documenting Gay Men: Identity and
Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007) and Gay
Identity, New Storytelling and the Media (2012), editor of LGBT
Transnational Identity and the Media (2012), and coeditor of LGBT Identity
and Online New Media (2010).

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's
webpage: http://us.macmillan.com/**queerloveinfilmandtelevision/**
PamelaDemory<http://us.macmillan.com/queerloveinfilmandtelevision/PamelaDemory>

Please email me if you have any questions.
Pamela Demory
University Writing Program
University of California, Davis
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

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