A Queer Romance by Paul Burston, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romancebrings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for lesbians and gay men. In a collection that is in-yer-face but never out-to-lunch, the contributors variously revisit debates about the gaze to provide a new theory of Queer viewing; discuss texts coded as queer - from lesbian vampires to Hollywood's use of gay codes in mainstream films such asTop GunandBlack Widow; consider the sexual and cultural narratives at play in the world of home shopping catalogues; explore the pleasures and perils of gay cultural production, from the radically queer film-making of Monika Treut to the wild world of homocore fanzines, and address the possibilities of texts claiming to beforthe gay spectator - from pornography `by women, for women and about women' to `Out' TV. The contributors toA Queer Romancedon't all agree but, taken together, the collection argues strongly that everyone can have their queer moments. | A Queer Romance by Paul Burston, Paperback | Indigo Chapters