Killing the Pain with Pleasure: On the Queering Effect of the Neo-Burlesque

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introducing Queer Pop 1
5. Part I: Queer Aesthetics in Pop Music
6. Queer Curls, Gender Power, and Plato: Eclectic Iconographies of Self-Empowerment in Lil Nas X’s Montero (Call Me By Your Name) 25
7. “Work, Work, Work, Work, Work.” On the Aesthetic Production of Gender in and through Pop Music 41
8. Getting-into. Queerness at Work in Early Pet Shop Boys 51
9. Part II: Homonationalism and Homonormativity in Television
10. Russian Bodies We Can Laugh About? Ethnic Drag in Race Conscious Gay US Media 69
11. “We Want the Right Kind of Gay” – Homonormative Representation of Lesbian Characters on Television 89
12. Creative Interlude
13. Artists Talk – A Conversation on Queer Pop 111
14. Part III: Queer Affect
15. Killing the Pain with Pleasure: On the Queering Effect of the Neo-Burlesque 119
16. Affective Sexualities 137
17. Part IV: Queer Futures
18. Is She the Girl from the Anti-Video? On FKA twigs’ Chronopolitics 161
19. Queer Reproduction: AIDS Activist Pasts and Futurity in Pose 177
20. Notes on Contributors 195
21. Index 197