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The B Word – Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television

Autor Maria San Filippo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 apr 2013
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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ISBN-13: 9780253008855
ISBN-10: 0253008859
Pagini: 294
Ilustrații: 26 b&w screen grabs
Dimensiuni: 184 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

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 BisexualityNotes; Bibliography; Index

Recenzii

Charting representations of bisexuality--ever present, hardly discussed--in films from Pandora's Box to Persona to Brokeback Mountain and television's True Blood, Maria San Filippo proves that there is plenty of room left in that celluloid closet. Her knowledge is comprehensive; her writing is astute and witty (she points out that Brokeback Mountain is not about gay cowboys, but bisexual shepherds), and her love of film comes through on every page. The B Word is essentially for film scholars, everyone interested in queer studies, and anyone who just likes movies. --Michael Bronski "author of A Queer History of the United States "

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Maintains that the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences