Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom
Title | Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom PDF eBook |
Author | Michael DeAngelis |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780822327387 |
DIVA case study of James Dean, mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves and how they maintain their appeal to both gay and straight audiences./div
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom
Title | Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom PDF eBook |
Author | Michael DeAngelis |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2001-08-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 082238020X |
Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay audiences? Do stars lose their cachet with straight audiences when they cross over? In Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom Michael DeAngelis responds to these questions with a provocative analysis of three famous actors—James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves. In the process, he traces a fifty-year history of audience reception that moves gay male fandom far beyond the realm of “camp” to places where culturally unauthorized fantasies are nurtured, developed, and shared. DeAngelis examines a variety of cultural documents, including studio publicity and promotional campaigns, star biographies, scandal magazines, and film reviews, as well as gay political and fan literature that ranges from the closeted pages of One and Mattachine Review in the 1950s to the very “out” dish columns, listserv postings, and on-line star fantasy narratives of the past decade. At the heart of this close historical study are treatments of particular film narratives, including East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, The Road Warrior, Lethal Weapon, My Own Private Idaho, and Speed. Using theories of fantasy and melodrama, Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom demonstrates how studios, agents, and even stars themselves often actively facilitate an audience’s strategic blurring of the already tenuous distinction between the heterosexual mainstream and the gay margins of American popular culture. In addition to fans of James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves, those interested in film history, cultural studies, popular culture, queer theory, gender studies, sociology, psychoanalytic theory, melodrama, fantasy, and fandom will enjoy this book.
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom
Title | Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom PDF eBook |
Author | Michael DeAngelis |
Publisher | Duke University Press Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2001-08-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
DIVA case study of James Dean, mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves and how they maintain their appeal to both gay and straight audiences./div
Reading the Bromance
Title | Reading the Bromance PDF eBook |
Author | Michael DeAngelis |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2014-06-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0814338992 |
Film and television scholars as well as readers interested in pop culture and queer studies will enjoy the insights of Reading the Bromance.
Pop Empires
Title | Pop Empires PDF eBook |
Author | S. Heijin Lee |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2019-07-31 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0824879929 |
At the start of the twenty-first century challenges to the global hegemony of U.S. culture are more apparent than ever. Two of the contenders vying for the hearts, minds, bandwidths, and pocketbooks of the world’s consumers of culture (principally, popular culture) are India and South Korea. “Bollywood” and “Hallyu” are increasingly competing with “Hollywood”—either replacing it or filling a void in places where it never held sway. This critical multidisciplinary anthology places the mediascapes of India (the site of Bollywood), South Korea (fountainhead of Hallyu, aka the Korean Wave), and the United States (the site of Hollywood) in comparative dialogue to explore the transnational flows of technology, capital, and labor. It asks what sorts of political and economic shifts have occurred to make India and South Korea important alternative nodes of techno-cultural production, consumption, and contestation. By adopting comparative perspectives and mobile methodologies and linking popular culture to the industries that produce it as well as the industries it supports, Pop Empires connects films, music, television serials, stardom, and fandom to nation-building, diasporic identity formation, and transnational capital and labor. Additionally, via the juxtaposition of Bollywood and Hallyu, as not only synecdoches of national affiliation but also discursive case studies, the contributors examine how popular culture intersects with race, gender, and empire in relation to the global movement of peoples, goods, and ideas.
Rebel
Title | Rebel PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Spoto |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780815410713 |
This authoritative biography of film icon James Dean offers a clear-eyed look at the actor who crossed America's cinematic landscape with the brilliance and brevity of a meteor.
Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture
Title | Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture PDF eBook |
Author | P. W. Galbraith |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2012-08-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137283785 |
This is the most complete and compelling account of idols and celebrity in Japanese media culture to date. Engaging with the study of media, gender and celebrity, and sensitive to history and the contemporary scene, these interdisciplinary essays cover male and female idols, production and consumption, industrial structures and fan movements.