Feeling normal : sexuality and media criticism in the digital age

Summary: "The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person in the contemporary moment. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of thinking about that phenomenon. By examining urban centers in tandem with advertiser-supported newspapers, New Queer Cinema and B-movies, queer-targeted television, and mobile apps, Griffin illustrates how new forms of LGBT media are less "new" than we often believe. He connects cities and LGBT media through the experiences they can make available to people, which Griffin articulates as feelings, emotions, and affects. He illuminates how the limitations of these experiences--while not universally accessible, nor necessarily empowering--are often the very reasons why people find them compelling and desirable."--Page 4 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9780253024558
ISBN: 0253024552
ISBN: 9780253024473
ISBN: 0253024471
ISBN: 9780253024596
Physical Description: print
xi, 190 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana ; Indiana University Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Machine generated contents note: 1. Cities as Affective Convergences -- 2. Aesthetics of Banality after New Queer Cinema -- 3. Cable TV, Commodity Activism, and Corporate Synergy (or Lack Thereof) -- 4. Toward a Queerer Criticism of Television -- 5. Wanting Something Online.