Maria San Filippo

The B Word

Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television

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Produktbeschreibung

The B Word explores the ways bisexual fantasy opens a space for "bi-curious" engagement, creating a fluid range of identifications and pleasures. In films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain, The Wedding Crashers, Persona, Chasing Amy, and Mulholland Drive, Maria San Filippo finds that bisexual tropes reveal the workings of our culture's logic of desire. Viewing these and other films through a bisexual lens, which views subjectivity and eroticism as malleable, The B Word transforms understandings of films previously read exclusively as either homosexual or heterosexual. As San Filippo's analysis of the promotion and popular reception of these films reveals, the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780253008855
• ISBN-10: 0253008859
• Artikelnr.: 36933964

Autorenporträt

Maria San Filippo

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Chasing Amy and Bisexual (In)visibility
Introduction: Binary Trouble and Compulsory Monosexuality
1. Unthinking Monosexuality: Bisexual Representability in Art Cinema
2. Power Play/s: Bisexuality as Privilege and Pathology in Sexploitation
Cinema
3. Of Cowboys and Cocksmen: Bisexuality and the Contemporary Hollywood
Bromance
4. Bisexuality on the Boob Tube
Conclusion: Queer/ing Bisexuality
Notes
Bibliography
Index