Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium

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Springer, 15 sept. 2008 - 233 pages
Taking up such issues as mainstreaming, the male gaze, and female masculinity, this book puts forward provocative readings of little explored texts and offers new insights into the contemporary representation of lesbians.
 

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Table des matières

C H A P T E R 1 Introduction
1
C H A P T E R 2 Image Sex and PoliticsCultural Political andTheoretical Contexts
21
C H A P T E R 3 Two Babies a Weddingand a ManQueer as Folk and The Lesbians
61
C H A P T E R 4 Recycling The L Word
94
C H A P T E R 5 Dressing Up StrappingOn and Stripping OffContemporary Lesbian PornographicCultural Production
135
C H A P T E R 6 Dykes to Watch Out Forand the Lesbian Landscape
167
C H A P T E R 7 Conclusion
191
Notes
195
Works Cited
211
Index
231
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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

Rebecca Beirne is Lecturer in Film, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium (2008), co-editor (with James Bennett) of Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand (2011), and has published multiple essays discussing queer representation in popular culture.

Informations bibliographiques

TitreLesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium
AuteurR. Beirne
Éditionillustrée
ÉditeurSpringer, 2008
ISBN0230615015, 9780230615014
Longueur233 pages
  
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