[ecrea] new book - Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age

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*Feeling Normal***

*Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age***

/F. Hollis Griffin///

    "As a guide to emerging queer media of our new century, Hollis 
Griffin is funny, generous, passionate, and lucid. Whether he’s 
explaining Grindr’s memes or the gayborhoods of Chicago, cable travel 
programs or online networks, Griffin discovers how it feels to be queer 
in the digital age." — Amy Villarejo, Author of /Ethereal Queer: 
Television, Historicity, Desire/

The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media 
companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary 
moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be 
a queer person. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of 
thinking about that phenomenon. By examining urban centers in tandem 
with advertiser-supported newspapers, New Queer Cinema and B-movies, 
queer-targeted television, and mobile apps, Griffin illustrates how new 
forms of LGBT media are less "new" than we often believe. He connects 
cities and LGBT media through the experiences they can make available to 
people, which Griffin articulates as feelings, emotions, and affects. He 
illuminates how the limitations of these experiences—while not 
universally accessible, nor necessarily empowering—are often the very 
reasons why people find them compelling and desirable.

*F. Hollis Griffin*is Assistant Professor of Queer Studies and 
Communication at Denison University where he teaches and conducts 
research on media studies, cultural theory, and the politics of identity 
and desire.

Indiana University Press |  | January 2017| 206pp | 15 b&w illus. | 
9780253024558 | Paperback | £25.99*

20% discount with this code: CSL217FNLS**

*Price subject to change.

  **Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australia.
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