| Hetero: Queering Representations of Straightness Contributor(s): Griffin, Sean (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1438426186 ISBN-13: 9781438426181 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 791.436 |
| LCCN: 2008028298 |
| Series: Horizons on Cinema |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 278 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Just as feminist scholars have turned to considerations of masculinity and scholars of race have begun to consider whiteness as a category, this collection brings the insights of queer theory to bear on cinematic representations of straightness. Spanning decades and cultures, from silent Hollywood films to modern Mumbai cinema, the essays in Hetero uncover multiple forms of heterosexual desire and demonstrate that heterosexuality is in fact a heavily contested terrain. Movies often become a place where one specific "heteronormative" ideal is upheld as proper, while other types of heterosexuality are denied or pathologized. By investigating how heterosexuality functions as a social construct, these essays deconstruct normative heterosexuality's simultaneous omnipresence and invisibility, effectively breaking down the barriers of sexual identity. Hetero offers a collective call to expand the ways in which queer theory is applied and put into practical use, and exposes the queer nature of the love that does dare speak its name. |