Documenting gay men : identity and performance in reality television and documentary film / Christopher Pullen.

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Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2007.
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Main Author:
Pullen, Christopher, 1959-
Subjects:
Gay men > United States > Identity.
Gay men in motion pictures.
Gay men on television.
Documentary films > United States.
Reality television programs > United States.
Gays in popular culture > United States.
Gay men in mass media.
Format: Book
Documenting gay men : identity and performance in reality television and documentary film /
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Constructing identity, the politics of representation, and the American son
  • 2. Performance and documentary : power, carnival, confession and opposition
  • 3. Autobiography and confessional performance in documentary : politics, AIDS and family
  • 4. Documenting youth identity and The Real World : testaments, role models and romantic narratives
  • 5. Nonheterosexual family forms : affirmation, race and religion
  • 6. Gay performers and discursive performativity : alliances, community and competition
  • 7. Reproduction and commodity : family, marriage and service
  • Conclusion : the move to the domestic
  • App. 1. White House press release
  • App. 2. A typology of modes of individual adaptation / Robert K. Merton.

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