[Commlist] New Book: Straight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen

We would like to announce a new publication from Routledge, which we 
hope will be of interest.

*Straight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen***

*Gilad Padva***

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https://www.routledge.com/Straight-Skin-Gay-Masks-and-Pretending-to-be-Gay-on-Screen-1st-Edition/Padva/p/book/9780367247744*

/Straight Skin, Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen/examines 
cinematic depictions of pretending-to-be-gay, assessing performances 
that not only reflect heteronormative and explicitly homophobic 
attitudes, but also offer depictions of gay selfhood with more nuanced 
multidirectional identifications.

The case of straight protagonists pretending to be gay on screen is the 
ideal context in which to study unanticipated progressivity and 
dissidence in regard to cultural construction of human sexualities in 
the face of theatricalized epistemological collapse. Teasing apart the 
dynamics of depictions of both sexual stability and fluidity in 
cinematic images of men pretending to be gay offers new insights into 
such salient issues as sexual vulnerability and dynamics and long-term 
queer visibility in a politically complicated mass culture which is 
mostly produced in a heteronormative and even hostile cultural 
environment. Additionally, this book initially examines queer uses of 
sexuality masquerade in Alternate Gay World Cinema that allegorically 
features a world pretending to be gay, in which straights are harassed 
and persecuted, in order to expose the tragic consequences of sexual 
intolerance.

Films and TV series examined as part of the analysis include /The Gay 
Deceivers/, /Victor/Victoria/, /Happy Texas/, William Friedkin’s 
/Cruising/ and many other straight and gay screens.

This book comprises six sections:

* Introduction – "Fabricated screens: Sexual authenticity, flamboyant 
masquerade and queer epistemology of pretending-to-be-gay films";

* Chapter one – "Staging Femininity: Screening the perilous pleasures of 
pretending to be a sissy";

* Chapter two – "Take it like a man: Cruising machismo in Leatherland";

* Chapter three – "Pretending to be allies?: Straight women, their 
pretending-to-be-gay admirers and sexual authentication";

* Chapter four – "Odd couples, queer partnerships and gay marriages in 
pretending-to-be-gay films";

* Chapter five – "Screening compulsory homosexuality: The perilous 
pleasures of parodying heteronormativity and fantasizing a topsy-turvy 
martyrdom";

* Afterword – "When gay masks gaze at the deceiver's straight skin: The 
grotesque screening of deceptive horrors and delights."

This study is relevant to students and researchers in Film Studies, 
Television Studies, Media Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Theatre 
Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Men's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist 
Studies, Queer Studies, and Heterosexuality Studies.


*Dr. Gilad Padva is a film, popular culture, men’s studies and queer 
theory scholar. He is the author of /Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop 
Culture /(2014) and co-editor of /Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, 
Literature and Visual Culture: The Phallic Eye /(2014), /Intimate 
Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture /(2017) and 
/Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society /(2020). He also 
publishes extensively in international academic journals, international 
collections and international encyclopedias. He currently teaches men’s 
studies and popular culture at the Program for Women and Gender Studies 
with the NCJW at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

*Routledge**| June 2020 | 196pp | ISBN 9780367247744| HB | £120.00**
ISBN 9780429287442| EB | £33.29**


*Price subject to change.


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