Sorry for cross-posting, but I just wanted to promote an upcoming book. Queer Temporalities is initially being released in hardback, so if you think it's something that your university should have, please request it. Hopefully it will sell well enough in hardback to the library market that Routledge will then release it in paperback, making it more available to the student market. All the best, Dr. Kelly Kessler College of Communication DePaul University Book Release: Nov 12, 2009 Title: Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation: Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity Author: Dustin Goltz Description: “This study examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the assumed correctness and naturalness of heteronormative engagements with time and future, while casting those who reject heteronormative logics into a future of doom, punishment, and regret. Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon "young" gay male bodies, while devaluing health, aging, and longevity. Alienated from the future -- outside of limited and exclusionary systems of marriage and procreation -- the gay male is narrated within a circular tragedy that draws upon cultural mythologies of "older" gay male predation, the absence of gay intergenerational mentorship, and the gay male as sacrificial victim. Using a Burkean framework, Goltz makes a theoretical, rhetorical, and cultural investigation of how the increased visibility of "positive" gay representation in dominant media shapes contemporary meanings of gay aging, heteronormative future, homonormative future, and queer potential.” Below is a link to the Routledge page, which has a librarian request form (it only takes only a minute to complete). I hope you will consider requesting the book as an addition to your university’s collection. http://www.routledge.com/books/Queer-Temporalities-in-Gay-Male-Representation-isbn9780415872287 Thank you for your consideration _________________________________________________________________ New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pc-scout/default.aspx?CBID=wl&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_pcscout:102009 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]