QUEER LOVE IN FILM AND TELEVISION: CRITICAL ESSAYS Co-edited By Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen This turn-of-the-century moment -- when queer love has become increasingly visible in both popular culture and socio-political realms -- provides an ideal occasion for a critical examination of same-sex love stories in the media. Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the essays collected in Queer Love in Film and Television ask how recent films and television programs play with, imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative conventions so common in Western culture. The collection follows the trajectory of the conventional romance narrative, from the pursuit of romantic love to the creation of families, and then it pushes further, into marginal regions where conventional narratives fail to venture, and then turns back to consider how that narrative is itself transformed (or queered) through adaptation. PRAISE FOR QUEER LOVE IN FILM AND TELEVISION: "Influenced by the major queer theorists, the varied and provocative essays collected in Queer Love in Film and Television challenge our thinking about the ways in which gay and lesbian sex and love have been presented in film and on television over the past two decades, from Modern Family to The L Word, and from Brokeback Mountain to gay porn. Along the way, crucial questions are asked about the validity of conventional romantic narratives as vehicles for presenting queer relationships, and the possibility of queer love. " -- John M. Clum, author of The Drama of Marriage: Gay Playwrights/Straight Unions from Oscar Wilde to the Present (2011), Something for the Boys: Musical Theater and Gay Culture (2001), and Still Acting Gay: Male Homosexuality in Modern Drama (2000) ABOUT THE EDITORS: *Pamela Demory is Continuing Lecturer in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, USA. She has published numerous articles on topics in film adaptation in journals such as Literature/Film Quarterly, Short Story Criticism, and others. *Christopher Pullen is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. He is the author of Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007) and Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media (2012), editor of LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media (2012), and coeditor of LGBT Identity and Online New Media (2010). For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://us.macmillan.com/queerloveinfilmandtelevision/PamelaDemory Please email me if you have any questions. Pamela Demory University Writing Program University of California, Davis [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> -------------------------------------- Palgrave Macmillan| 277 pages | 2013 ISBN 9781137272966 | Hardcover | $90.00 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org