Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Hart Kylo-Patrick R.
Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Hart Kylo-Patrick R. Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. In Queer Males in…
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Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible Hart Kylo-Patrick R.
Over the past several decades, mainstream films have gradually featured queer content and characters. In Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible, Kylo-Patrick R. Depicted covertly at first, these characterizations have become much more prominent in recent years, most notably in such films as Philadelphia, Boys Don't Cry, and Brokeback Mountain.
Hart examines films pertaining to bisexual, gay, and transgender men, as well as transsexuals, transvestites, queer people with HIV/AIDS, queer teens, and others. Hart explores both latent and manifest representations of queer males in noteworthy cinema from the mid-20th to the early 21st century. Throughout, this book continually reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of "normalcy," "deviance," and "social otherness," in ways that frequently have
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