Title:
The B word : bisexuality in contemporary film and television / Maria San Filippo.
Author:
San Filippo, Maria.
Publication Information:
Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Call Number:
PN1995.9 .B57 S36 2013
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic Access:
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ISBN:
9780253008794
9780253008855
9780253008923
Physical Description:
x, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles.
Contents:
Prologue: Chasing Amy and bisexual (in)visibility -- Introduction: binary trouble and compulsory monosexuality -- Unthinking monosexuality: bisexual representability in art cinema -- Power play/s: bisexuality as privilege and pathology in sexploitation cinema -- Of cowboys and cocksmen: bisexuality and the contemporary Hollywood bromance -- Bisexuality on the boob tube -- Conclusion: queer/ing bisexuality.
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