Christopher Pullen

Documenting Gay Men

Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts an evolution in gay identity within American reality television and documentary film. Through focusing on the performative potential of gay men, it examines the emergence of the independent gay citizen as a bold new voice rejecting subjugation within the media. Through examining productions as diverse as An American Family, Tongues United, Silverlake Life, The Real World, Paternal Instinct, Trembling Before G-D, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and many others, this book explores how gay people as teens, devoted couples, parents, inspiring individuals and influential producers have contributed to the progression of gay identity in domestic arenas. These portrayals are played out while discussing AIDS, race, religion, the development of same-sex family forms, the issues of procreation and gay marriage and the changing views of gay men as both creative producers and responsible social agents. In these forms of entertainment, gay social actors as political agents challenge dominant ideas, and invent new social worlds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780786428076
• ISBN-10: 0786428074
• Artikelnr.: 21460029

Autorenporträt

Christopher Pullen is a senior lecturer in media, gender and performance at Bournemouth Media School, Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. His articles and essays on gay identity have appeared in several publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction     
1. Constructing Identity, the Politics of Representation, and the American
Son     
2. Performance and Documentary: Power, Carnival, Confession and
Opposition     
3. Autobiography and Confessional Performance in Documentary: Politics,
AIDS and Family     
4. Documenting Youth Identity and The Real World: Testaments, Role Models
and Romantic Narratives     
5. Nonheterosexual Family Forms: Affirmation, Race and Religion     
6. Gay Performers and Discursive Performativity: Alliances, Community and
Competition     
7. Reproduction and Commodity: Family, Marriage and Service     
Conclusion: The Move to the Domestic     
Filmography     
Appendix 1. White House Press Release     
Appendix 2. A Typology of Modes of Individual Adaptation by Robert K.
Merton     
Chapter Notes     
Bibliography     
Index