The B Word

Informationen zum Autor Maria San Filippo is associate professor of media studies at Emerson College and editor of New Review of Film and Television Studies. She has authored the Lambda Literary Award-winning The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television and Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media. Klappentext The B Word explores the ways bisexual fantasy opens a space for "bi-curious" engagement, creating a fluid range of identifications and pleasures. In films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain , The Wedding Crashers , Persona , Chasing Amy , and Mulholland Drive , Maria San Filippo finds that bisexual tropes reveal the workings of our culture's logic of desire. Viewing these and other films through a bisexual lens, which views subjectivity and eroticism as malleable, The B Word transforms understandings of films previously read exclusively as either homosexual or heterosexual. As San Filippo's analysis of the promotion and popular reception of these films reveals, the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences. Zusammenfassung Maintains that the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: Chasing Amy and Bisexual (In)visibility Introduction: Binary Trouble and Compulsory Monosexuality 1. Unthinking Monosexuality: Bisexual Representability in Art Cinema 2. Power Play/s: Bisexuality as Privilege and Pathology in Sexploitation Cinema 3. Of Cowboys and Cocksmen: Bisexuality and the Contemporary Hollywood Bromance 4. Bisexuality on the Boob Tube Conclusion: Queer/ing Bisexuality Notes Bibliography Index

Klappentext

The B Word explores the ways bisexual fantasy opens a space for "bi-curious" engagement, creating a fluid range of identifications and pleasures. In films as diverse as Brokeback Mountain, The Wedding Crashers, Persona, Chasing Amy, and Mulholland Drive, Maria San Filippo finds that bisexual tropes reveal the workings of our culture's logic of desire. Viewing these and other films through a bisexual lens, which views subjectivity and eroticism as malleable, The B Word transforms understandings of films previously read exclusively as either homosexual or heterosexual. As San Filippo's analysis of the promotion and popular reception of these films reveals, the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences.

Zusammenfassung
Maintains that the entertainment industry both exploits and effaces bisexuality in its appeal to diverse audiences

Inhalt

Prologue: Chasing Amy and Bisexual (In)visibility
Introduction: Binary Trouble and Compulsory Monosexuality

1. Unthinking Monosexuality: Bisexual Representability in Art Cinema
2. Power Play/s: Bisexuality as Privilege and Pathology in Sexploitation Cinema
3. Of Cowboys and Cocksmen: Bisexuality and the Contemporary Hollywood Bromance
4. Bisexuality on the Boob Tube
   Conclusion: Queer/ing Bisexuality
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index