Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Hubbs Nadine

Автор: Hubbs Nadine
Название: Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music
ISBN: 0520280660 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520280663
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 31680.00 T
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Описание: Suitable for students and scholars of American music, gender and sexuality, class, and pop culture, this book looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America`s most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music.

Автор: Balcerzak Scott
Название: Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
ISBN: 0814339654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814339657
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 33270.00 T
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Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster," a "rebel," or a "buffoon." Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he." In Buffoon Men: Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity, Scott Balcerzak reads the performances of notable comedians such as W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello through humor and queer theory to expose a problematic history of maleness in their personas. He argues that contrary to popular notions of Classic Hollywood history, these male comedians rearranged or, at times, rejected heteronormative protocols.

Balcerzak begins by defining the particular buffoonish masculinity portrayed by early film comedians, a gender and genre construct influenced by the cultural anxieties of the 1930s and '40s. In chapter 1, he considers the onscreen pairing of W. C. Fields and Mae West to identify a queered sexuality and drag persona in Fields's performance, while in chapter 2 he examines the two major constructions of Fields's film persona-the confidence man and the husband-to show Fields to be a conflicted and subversive figure. In chapter 3, Balcerzak considers the assimilation and influence of Eddie Cantor as a Jewish celebrity, while he turns to the cross-media influence of Jack Benny's radio persona in chapter 4. In Chapters 5 and 6, he moves beyond the individual performer to examine the complex masculine brotherhood of comedy duos Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey.

Buffoon Men shows that the complicated history of the male comedian during the early sound era has much to tell us about multimedia comedic stars today. Fans and scholars of film history, gender studies, and broadcast studies will appreciate Balcerzak's thorough exploration of the era's fascinating gender constructs.

Автор: Schanke Robert A
Название: Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans
ISBN: 1137349425 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137349422
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 23280.00 T
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Описание: A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theater whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Schanke`s examination of his life and legacy allows a rare exploration into this pivotal moment of gay American history.

Автор: Miller D Quentin
Название: Routledge Introduction to African American Literature
ISBN: 0415839653 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415839655
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature considers the key literary, political, historical and intellectual contexts of African American literature from its origins to the present, and also provides students with an analysis of the most up-to-date literary trends and debates in African American literature.