Year: 2007
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In an attempt to trace the ongoing process of forming and negotiating gay \nidentities in response to historical events and media texts, this dissertation explores the \nintersections between gay men, media reception, and public space in relation to a number \nof historically and socially significant film and television texts: Cruising (1980), Parting \nGlances (1986), Longtime Companion (1990), Philadelphia (1993), and Any Mother’s \nSon (1997). This dissertation examines these texts within the framework of historical \nmaterialist analysis, while incorporating the insights of cultural geography. These \nanalyses demonstrate the importance of studying historical audiences while \nunderstanding audience members as not only media consumers, but social subjects \nlocated within social space who reflect upon, respond to, and adapt to the ways in which \nsocial space enables and constrains their politics, desires, memories, and affective \nexperiences.
Author: Bryan Ray Fruth
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1915204875