LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media

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Hardcover | 1 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gay & Lesbian Studies Gay Studies for Gay Men Lesbian Studies Miscellaneous Items Media Studies TV & Society Gender Studies Gender Studies: 'Trans', Transgender People & Gender Variance

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Preface	p. xii
Notes on Contributors	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Politics and Citizenship
LGBT Transnational Documentary "Becoming"	p. 23
Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television	p. 41
Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom?	p. 59
Sub-Saharan African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness	p. 67
The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Postapartheid Identities	p. 84
The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage	p. 102
The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api	p. 114
Adaptation and Postcolonial Transitions
Queer (Im)possibilities: Alaa Al-Aswany's and Wahid Hamed's The Yacoubian Building	p. 131
Andrew Salkey, James Baldwin and the Case of the "Leading Aberrant": Early Gay Narratives in the British Media	p. 146
The Exotic Erotic: Queer Representations in the Context of Postcolonial Ethnicity on British TV	p. 161
Documenting the Queer Indian: The Question of Queer Identification in Khush and Happy Hookers	p. 181
Screening Queer India in Pratibha Parmar's Khush	p. 197
Performance and Subjectivity
Gay Pornography as Latin American Queer Historiography	p. 213
Quo Vadis, Queer Vato? Queer and Loathing in Latino Cinema	p. 231
Queer Art of Parallaxed Document: Visual Discourse of Docudrag in Kutlug Ataman's Never My Soul! (2001)	p. 242
The Drag Queers the S/He Binary: Subversion of Heteronormativity in Turkish Context	p. 259
If Art Imitated Reality: George Takei, Coming Out, and the Insufferably Straight Star Trek Universe	p. 273
A Chinese Queer Discourse: Camp and Alternative Desires in the Films of Yon Fan and Lou Ye	p. 290
Index	p. 309
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