Queer Pop

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2023

Queer Pop

Aesthetic Interventions in Contemporary Culture

Edited by: Bettina Papenburg and Kathrin Dreckmann

Volume 1 in the series Queer Futures

Overview

About this book

Open Access

Popular culture encompasses and draws on a rich history of works by musicians, filmmakers, writers, photographers, and performers who question the contours of traditional sexual and gender identities, including but not limited to members of LGBTQIA* communities. When encountered on the stage or screen, for instance, in the guise of drag performances, forms of sexual ambiguity often spark fascination. Yet in everyday life in various socio-cultural contexts, sexual and bodily difference in all its forms is still met with hostility, rendering vulnerable those human beings that deviate from the white, male, straight, able-bodied norm. Queer artists today respond to social stigma in multiple creative ways, for example, by transforming negative affect, fostering a politics of care, and rewriting history.

This volume considers how feminist, queer, and trans* musicians, filmmakers, curators, and performance artists contribute to popular culture. It explores the many ways of relating to difference, however this is conceived, that their contributions enable. What affects do their works engender? How do they rouse their audience, and to what ends? How do they fabricate and circulate provocative messages about new forms of gender, race, class, and desire? What other visions do they inspire?

interdisciplinary perspectives of pop theory on hot topics "queer", "gender", "race", "class"
new insights in aesthetic interventions and strategies in contemporary popular culture

Author information

Bettina Papenburg, University of Freiburg, Germany; Kathrin Dreckmann, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students working in media, cultural, performance, film, visual, gender and queer studies.
Pages
- Main content: 300
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 50
Keywords: Gender Studies; LGBTQI+; Pop culture; Queer

eBook

Planned Publication: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783111013435

Hardcover

Planned Publication: December 31, 2023
ISBN: 9783110795868