{"product_id":"a-queer-romance-lesbians-gay-men-and-popular-culture-9780415096188","title":"A Queer Romance: Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paul Burston | Paul Burston Nfa | Colin Richardson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. \u003cem\u003eA Queer Romance\u003c\/em\u003e brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for lesbians and gay men.\u003cbr\u003e In a collection that is in-yer-face but never out-to-lunch, the contributors variously revisit debates about the gaze to provide a new theory of Queer viewing; discuss texts coded as queer - from lesbian vampires to Hollywood's use of gay codes in mainstream films such as \u003cem\u003eTop Gun\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBlack Widow\u003c\/em\u003e; consider the sexual and cultural narratives at play in the world of home shopping catalogues; explore the pleasures and perils of gay cultural production, from the radically queer film-making of Monika Treut to the wild world of homocore fanzines, and address the possibilities of texts claiming to be \u003cem\u003efor\u003c\/em\u003e the gay spectator - from pornographyby women, for women and about women' toOut' TV.\u003cbr\u003e The contributors to \u003cem\u003eA Queer Romance\u003c\/em\u003e don't all agree but, taken together, the collection argues strongly that everyone can have their queer moments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46929115644055,"sku":"9780415096188","price":3158.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415096188.webp?v=1771597806","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-queer-romance-lesbians-gay-men-and-popular-culture-9780415096188","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}