[ecrea] Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representations

> Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation: Tragedy, 
> Normativity, and Futurity
> By Dustin Bradley Goltz
>
> This study examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular 
> media that perpetuate the assumed correctness and naturalness of 
> heteronormative engagements with time and future, while casting 
> those who reject heteronormative logics into a future of doom, 
> punishment, and regret. Through the analysis of over seventy films 
> and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home 
> Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah's Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and 
> Dawson's Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in 
> popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon "young" 
> gay male bodies, while devaluing health, aging, and longevity. 
> Alienated from the future -- outside of limited and exclusionary 
> systems of marriage and procreation -- the gay male is narrated 
> within a circular tragedy that draws upon cultural mythologies of 
> "older" gay male predation, the absence of gay intergenerational 
> mentorship, and the gay male as sacrificial victim. Using a Burkean 
> framework, Goltz makes a theoretical, rhetorical, and cultural 
> investigation of how the increased visibility of "positive" gay 
> representation in dominant media shapes contemporary meanings of gay 
> aging, heteronormative future, homonormative future, and queer potential.
>
> Below is a link to the Routledge page, which has a librarian request 
> form link.
>
> <http://www.routledge.com/books/Queer-Temporalities-in-Gay-Male-Representation-isbn9780415872287>http://www.routledge.com/books/Queer-Temporalities-in-Gay-Male-Representation-isbn9780415872287 
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jason
> ________________________
> Jason Zingsheim, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Communication Studies
> Governors State University
> One University Parkway
> University Park, IL 60484

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