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Queer: Good Gay, Bad Gay, Black Gay, White Gay?, Ian Barnard Jan 2018

Queer: Good Gay, Bad Gay, Black Gay, White Gay?, Ian Barnard

English Faculty Articles and Research

"As Deadline .com bluntly put it, 'Kevin Spacey Apologizes to Anthony Rapp for Alleged Sexual Advances; Chooses to "Live As A Gay Man."' The outraged response of progressive intellectuals, activists, and cultural critics to Spacey’s twofold tweet has demonstrated, inter alia, the resilience of old school assumptions and expectations about coming out and about gay identity and gay identifications. These outraged responses have come especially from younger generations of intellectuals, activists, and critics, but also across generations, genders, and sexual orientations. Despite decades of attacks on models of gay identity that center on teleological narratives of coming out, and critiques …


Rhetorical Commonsense And Child Molester Panic--A Queer Intervention, Ian Barnard Jan 2017

Rhetorical Commonsense And Child Molester Panic--A Queer Intervention, Ian Barnard

English Faculty Articles and Research

This article considers how contemporary representations of child molesters in scholarly, political, and popular culture participate in projects that revolve around the recuperation of heteronormativity. I argue that these multimodal obsessions with child molestation displace the resilience of entrenched homophobic fears, prejudices, and dispositions, giving the lie to the commonplace that the political advance of same-sex marriage in the United States signals the apotheosis of gay rights. My analysis focuses on two representative popular and scholarly texts: the long-running television series Law and Order: SVU and a scholarly article about the Jerry Sandusky case published in jac. The former …


Review Of Jane Austen On Film And Television: A Critical Study Of The Adaptations, Lynda A. Hall Mar 2003

Review Of Jane Austen On Film And Television: A Critical Study Of The Adaptations, Lynda A. Hall

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A review of Jane Austen on Film and Television: A Critical Study of the Adaptations by Sue Parrll.


Review Of Amandla!: A Revolution In Four-Part Harmony (Film), Ian Barnard Jan 2003

Review Of Amandla!: A Revolution In Four-Part Harmony (Film), Ian Barnard

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A review of the film Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony.


Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; Or, The Commodification Of Form In The Adaptation Of Fictional Texts To The Hollywood Cinema, Mark Axelrod Oct 1996

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood; Or, The Commodification Of Form In The Adaptation Of Fictional Texts To The Hollywood Cinema, Mark Axelrod

English Faculty Articles and Research

Examines the adaptation of fictional texts to the cinema in the United States. Importance of the narrative's structure; Required characteristics of the narrative; Issues on the selection of works.