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Item Details
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THE B WORD
BISEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY FILM AND TELEVISION |
| By: |
Maria San Filippo |
| Format: |
Book |
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£62.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253008794 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253008794 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
12 April, 2013 |
| Pages: |
294 |
| Description: |
Maintains that the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences |
| Synopsis: |
Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. Maria San Filippo aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary screen culture, establishing its importance in representation, marketing, and spectatorship. By examining a variety of media genres including art cinema, sexploitation cinema and vampire films, "bromances," and series television, San Filippo discovers "missed moments" where bisexual readings of these texts reveal a more malleable notion of subjectivity and eroticism. San Filippo's work moves beyond the subject of heteronormativity and responds to "compulsory monosexuality," where it's not necessarily a couple's gender that is at issue, but rather that an individual chooses one or the other. The B Word transcends dominant relational formation (gay, straight, or otherwise) and brings a discursive voice to the field of queer and film studies. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Indiana University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Lambda Literary Award 2014 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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