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LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media

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  1. Christopher Pullen

    1. Bournemouth University, UK

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Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fiction oriented texts. An interdisciplinary approach is put forward, revealing new potentials for non western queer identity.

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Christopher Pullen
      Pages 1-20

  3. Politics and Citizenship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. LGBT Transnational Documentary “Becoming”

      • Christopher Pullen
      Pages 23-40

    3. Trauma and Triumph: Documenting Middle Eastern Gender and Sexual Minorities in Film and Television

      • Rebecca Beirne, Samar Habib
      Pages 41-58

    4. Transsexual in Iran: A Fatwa for Freedom?

      • Sahar Bluck
      Pages 59-66

    5. Sub-Saharan African Sexualities, Transnational HIV/AIDS Educational Film and the Question of Queerness

      • David Oscar Harvey
      Pages 67-83

    6. The Floating/Fleeting Spectacle of Transformation: Queer Carnival, Gay Pride and the Renegotiation of Postapartheid Identities

      • Ernst van der Wal
      Pages 84-101

    7. The Argentinean Movement for Same-Sex Marriage

      • Margaret Cooper
      Pages 102-113

    8. The Politics of Reclaiming Identity: Representing the Mak Nyahs in Bukak Api

      • Andrew Hock Soon Ng
      Pages 114-128
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Bournemouth University, UK

    Christopher Pullen

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REBECCA BEIRNELecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia SAHAR BLUCKworks in production for a creative advertising agency PERI BRADLEY Associate Lecturer in Film and TV at Southampton Solent University and University of Southampton, UK CUNYET CAKIRLAR Research Associate in the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK MARGARET COOPER Sociologist at Southern Illinois University, USA BRUCE DRUSHELAssistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Miami University, USA SERKAN ERTIN Currently teaching at the Western Languages and Literatures Department, Kocaeli University, Turkey DANIEL FARRIndependent Scholar living and working in Lynchburg, USA JENNIFER GAUTHIERAssociate Professor of Communication Studies at Randolph College in Virginia, USA SAMAR HABIB Affiliated Scholar at UC Berkeley's Beatrice Bain Research Group and a visiting Professor at San Francisco State, USA DAVID OSCAR HARVEYPhD candidate in the department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, USA ANDREW HOCK SOON NGSenior Lecturer in literary studies at Monash University, Malaysia JASON HO KA-HANGTeaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong KATE HOULDENPhD graduate in the English Department of Queen Mary, University of London, UK STEPHANIE SELVICKPhD candidate and lecturer at the University of Miami, Florida, USA GUSTAVO SUBEROSenior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Coventry University, UK RICHARD REITSMAAssistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA BRYCE J. RENNINGERPhD candidate in the Media Studies program at Rutgers University, USA ERNST VAN DER WALLecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

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