Routledge research in gender, sexuality, and media
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction: the queer and the punk -- Queer punk productions before Queercore -- Queercore sex -- Queercore confrontation -- Queercore bodies -- Conclusion: a queer elegy for the future.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the undiferground fanzine ("zine") J.D.s. Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s. declared "civil war" on the punk and gay and lesbian mainstreams, consolidating a subculture of likeminded filmmakers, zinesters, musicans and performers situated in pointed opposition to the homophobia of mainline punk and the lifeless sexual politics and exclusionary tendencies of dominant gay and lesbian society. More than thirty years later, queercore and its troublemaking productions remain undifer the radar, but still culturally and politically resonant. This book brings renewed attention to queercore, exploring the homology between queer theory/practice and punk theory/practice at the heart of queercore mediamaking. Through analysis of key queercore texts, this book also elucidates the tropes central to queercore's subcultural distinction: unashamed sexual representation, confrontational politics and "shocking" embodiments, including those related to size, ability and gendifer variance. An exploration of a specific transmedia subculture grounded in archival research, ethnographic interviews, theoretical argumentation and close analysis, ultimately, Queercore proffers a provocative, and tangible, new answer to the long-debated question, "What does it mean to be queer?""--Provided by publisher.
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Ingram Content Group
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9781315317847
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Title
Queercore.
International Standard Book Number
9781138230606
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Gender identity-- Philosophy.
Homosexuality-- Philosophy.
Punk culture-- Canada.
Queer theory.
Subculture-- Canada.
Gender identity-- Philosophy.
Homosexuality-- Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.