Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture by Charles, Casey

Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409444060)

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Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture by Charles, Casey

Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture

$200.00
Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture by Charles, Casey

Critical Queer Studies: Law, Film, and Fiction in Contemporary American Culture

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Critical Queer Studies examines contemporary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and queer life, analyzing the effects of legal doctrines-jury selection, unwanted sexual advance, negligence, hate crimes, and gay marriage-on the production and reception of queer film and fiction. Exploring the interaction of these discourses by discussing internationally-known American films, the book demonstrates how the law maintains its hold over the queer subject through promoting certain ideological fictions and conversely how film and literature draw upon the material realities of queer legal status to dramatize conflicts between law and the marginalized subject. Critical Queer Studies synthesizes queer studies, law and literature, and film studies, engaging these fields to show how the struggle for gay and lesbian rights has influenced the production of film and fiction.

Author: Casey Charles
ISBN-10: 1409444066
ISBN-13: 9781409444060
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2012
Pages: 202
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

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By Casey Charles
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Casey Charles is a former lawyer who now teaches English at the University of Montana. Both his teaching and literature focus on gay and lesbian literature, queer film, and critical theory. His first book, The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial (Kansas 2003), was a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award in non-fiction.

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