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Media and Screen Studies : Gender and Sexuality Studies and Film; Queer Media

Gender and Sexual Studies and Film

  • Cover ArtContemporary Black American cinema: race, gender and sexuality at the movies by Mask, Mia.
    Publication Date: 2012
  • Cover ArtFeminism and film by Kaplan, E. Ann
    Publication Date: 2000
  • Cover ArtFeminist film theory: a reader by Thornham, Sue
    Publication Date: 1999
  • Cover ArtGhost Faces:Hollywood and post-millenial masculinity by Greven, David
    Publication Date: 2016
  • Cover ArtGirl head : feminism and film materiality by Yue, Genevieve
    ISBN: 9780823289585
    Publication Date: 2021
  • Cover ArtLooking for the other : feminism, film, and the imperial gaze by Kaplan, E. Ann
    Publication Date: 1997
  • Cover ArtManhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush by Greven, David
    Publication Date: 2009
  • Cover ArtNeo-feminist cinema: girly films, chick flicks and consumer culture by Radner, Hilary
    Publication Date: 2011
  • Screening Sex by Williams, Linda
    Publication Date: 2008
  • Cover ArtWomen and film : a sight and sound reader by Cook, Pam; Dodd, Philip.
    Call Number: \
    Publication Date: 1993

Background Reading

  • Aberrations in black : toward a queer of color critique by Ferguson, Roderick A.
    Publication Date: 2004
  • Black queer studies: a critical anthology by Johnson, E. Patrick; Henderson, Mae G; Holland, Sharon Patricia; Cohen, Cathy J; E. Patrick Johnson; Mae G. Henderson
    Publication Date: 2005
  • Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex" by Butler, Judith
    Publication Date: 1993
  • Disidentifications : queers of color and the performance of politics by Muñoz, José Esteban
    Publication Date: 1999
  • The lesbian and gay studies reader by Abelove, Henry; Barale, Michèle Aina; Halperin, David M.
    Publication Date: 1993
  • The Sense of brown by Muñoz, José Esteban; Chambers-Letson, Joshua; Nyong'o, Tavia; Joshua Chambers-Letson; Tavia Nyong’o
    Publication Date: 2020
  • Trap door: trans cultural production and the politics of visibility by Gossett, Reina, editor; Stanley, Eric A.,editor; Burton, Johanna, editor.
    Publication Date: 2017

Documentaries

  • The Bro Code : how contemporary culture creates sexist men
    Call Number: 2014
  • Further off the straight and narrow : new gay visibility on television, 1998-2006
    Publication Date: 2014
  • Generation M : misogyny in media and culture
    Publication Date: 2014
  • Off the straight & narrow : lesbians, gays, bisexuals & television, 1967-1998
    Publication Date: 2014

Queer Media

  • Cover ArtFeeling normal: sexuality and media criticism in the digital age by F. Hollis Griffin
    Publication Date: 2016
  • Cover ArtFrench and Spanish queer film: audiences, communities and cultural exchange by Waldron, Darren ; Perriam, Chris
    Publication Date: 2016
  • Gay TV and straight America by Becker, Ron
    Publication Date: 2006
  • Cover ArtNo straight lines : four decades of queer comics by Hall, Justin
    Publication Date: 2012
  • Cover ArtQueer art of failure by Halberstam, Jack
    Publication Date: 2011
  • Cover ArtQueer cinema in America: an encyclopedia of LGBTQ films, characters, and stories by Benshoff, Harry M. ; Griffin, Sean.
    Publication Date: 2019
  • Cover ArtQueer images : a history of gay and lesbian film in America by Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean.
    Publication Date: 2006
  • Cover ArtReading the L word: outing contemporary television by Akass, Kim; McCabe, Janet.
  • Cover ArtReel to Real: race, sex and class at the movies by hooks, bell
    Publication Date: 1996

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