This critical introduction to gay and lesbian identity within the media explores the concept of ‘new storytelling’. The case studies look at film, television and online media, focusing on the narrative potential of individual storytellers who, as producers, writers and performers, challenge identity concerns and offer new expressions of liberty.
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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Placing the Self Within the Frame New Storytelling: Transitions from the Past Gay Identity and Self-Reflexivity Community, History and Transformation Factual Media Space: Intimacy, Participation and Therapy Commodity and Family Teenage Identity and Ritual Other Storytelling and the New Frontier Conclusion: Cohesion, Fragmentation and ‘Becoming’ Notes Filmography Works Cited Index
Circa l’autore
CHRISTOPHER PULLEN Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. He is the author of
Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007). His research interests relate to the representation and performance of minority identity within contemporary media, and contexts of gender and sexuality.
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