Queer Popular Culture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Popular Culture, Queer Culture

   • Thomas Peele

   Pages 1-8

3. The Three Phases of Ellen: From Queer to Gay to Postgay

   • Jennifer Reed

   Pages 9-26

4. Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah’s Arc

   • Gust A. Yep, John P. Elia

   Pages 27-40

5. All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley

   • Cathy Leaker

   Pages 41-55

6. Queer as Folk and the Spectacularization of Gay Identity

   • Giovanni Porfido

   Pages 57-69

7. Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and Politics in The L Word

   • Aviva Dove-Viebahn

   Pages 71-83

8. “Reading for It”: Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience

   • Sheila Liming

   Pages 85-102

9. Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

   • Wendy Hsu

   Pages 103-117

10. Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture

    • Amalia Ziv

    Pages 119-135

11. Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films

    • Sharif Mowlabocus

    Pages 137-149

12. Straight Shooters, Stainless-Steel Stories, and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World

    • Christopher Le Coney, Zoe Trodd

    Pages 151-167

13. New Queer White Trash Cinema

    • Daniel Mudie Cunningham

    Pages 169-182

14. Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West

    • Mark McHarry

    Pages 183-195

15. Why (not) Queer?: Ambivalence about “Politics” and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan

    • Terri He

    Pages 197-213

16. Reconfiguring Differences: Radicalizing Popular Culture Pedagogy

    • Laura Gray-Rosendale, Kendra Birnley

    Pages 215-227

17. Queering Harry Potter

    • Jill R. Ehnenn

    Pages 229-256

18. Back Matter

    Pages 257-262

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Articles cover many aspects of contemporary culture, including the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of queer representations of blackness. This accessible volume offers useful analytical tools that will help readers make sense of the problems and promise of queer pop culture.

• America
• culture
• gender
• identity
• politics
• women

Thomas Peele is Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches graduate classes in cultural studies and rhetorical theory, and undergraduate classes in non-fiction writing and new media.

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