Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Introduction. Gender, Sexuality, and Media: Audience and Spectatorship 1
5. PART I Revisiting Film Subjects and the Pleasures of Cinema
6. ONE Feminine Discourse in Blackmail 21
7. TWO Venus in Furs: Masoch, Deleuze, and the Films of von Sternberg 31
8. THREE “You Don’t Know What It Is to Look White and Be Black”: The Black Press Mediates Race in the Classic Hollywood Studio System, 1930–1940 42
9. Joe Dallesandro—A “Him” to the Gaze: Flesh, Heat, and Trash 62
10. PART II Speaking Up and Sounding Out 75
11. FIVE Unheard Sexualities?: Queer Theory and the Soundtrack 77
12. SIX The Articulation of Body and Space in Speak Body 96
13. SEVEN “I Kinda Prefer to Be a Human Being”: Roseanne Barr and Defining Working-Class Feminism and Authorship 107
14. EIGHT Riot Grrrl: It’s Not Just Music, It’s Not Just Punk 125
15. PART III Queering Media
16. NINE Soap Slash: Gay Men Rewrite the World of Daytime Television Drama 147
17. TEN From Excess to Access: Televising the Subculture 163
18. ELEVEN Pronoun Trouble: The “Queerness” of Animation 177
19. PART IV Containment and Its Critiques
20. TWELVE Of Fleiss and Men: The Transgressions and Containment of a Hollywood Madam 199
21. THIRTEEN Out on Stage: LGBT Politics of Entertainment Award Shows 216
22. FOURTEEN Lesbian Cop, Queer Killer: Leveraging Black Queer Women’s Sexuality on HBO’s The Wire 225
23. PART V Fandom and Transmedia
24. FIFTEEN Resurrection of the Vampire and the Creation of Alternative Life: An Introduction to Dark Shadows Fan Culture 243
25. SIXTEEN The Rumors Are True!: Gossip Girl and the Cooptation of the Cult Fan 260
26. SEVENTEEN The Trouble with Transmediation: Fandom’s Negotiation of Transmedia Storytelling Systems 267
27. Contributors 275
28. Index 279