Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-Sex Desire in Film and Television
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1560233486 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dennis, author of Queering Teen Culture, teaches sociology at Wright State University. Jeffery P.
Hulbert, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, George Fox University. "THIS BOOK WILL FOREVER CHANGE HOW WE VIEW THE STAPLES OF TEENAGE BOY IMAGERY IN POPULAR CULTURE." -- Ann Marie Nicolosi, PhD, Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies/History, The College of New Jersey"This book draws us closer to understanding the importance of locating and openly recognizing teen homosexuality in America today." -- Melanie A
"Gay ideology triumphs over historical accuracy" according to John Hamilton. This is the sequel to Jeffery Dennis' “We Boys Together”, in which, as in the first volume, the author continues to display the egregious disregard for factual accuracy which has become his hallmark. The blurb on the back cover boasts two quotes from an “Associate Professor of Women's and
But Queering Teen Culture analyzes more than 200 movies and TV shows to uncover who Frankie Avalon’s character was really in love with in those beach movies and why Leif Garrett became a teen idol in the 1970s. This provocative book examines the careers of male performers whose teenage roles made them famous (including Ricky Nelson, Pat Boone, Fabian, and James Darren) and discusses examples of lesbian desire (including I Love Lucy and Laverne and Shirley). Queering Teen Culture looks beyond the litany to find out when adults became so insistent about teenage sexual desireand whyand finds evidence of same-sex desire, romantic interactions, and identities that, according to the dominant ideology, do not and cannot exist. In Top 40 songs, teen magazines, movies, TV soap operas and sitcoms, teenagers are defined by their pubescent discovery of the opposite sex, universally and without exception. Why did Fonzie hang around with all those high school boys?Is the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of popular teen movies, music, books, and TV just a cover for an undercurrent of same-sex desire? From the 1950s to the present, popular culture has involved teenage boys falling for, longing over, dreaming about, singing t