Why and how do the appeal of certa male Hollywood stars cross over om straight to gay dienc? Do stars lose their chet wh straight dienc when t
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- GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM
- GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM: JAM DEAN, MEL GIBSON, AND KEANU REEV PAPERBACK – AUGT 15, 2001
- GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM: JAM DEAN, MEL GIBSON, AND KEANU REEV
- GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM
- GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM
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Why and how do the appeal of certa male Hollywood stars cross over om straight to gay dienc? In Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom Michael DeAngelis rponds to the qutns wh a provotive analysis of three famo actors—Jam Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reev.
GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM: JAM DEAN, MEL GIBSON, AND KEANU REEV PAPERBACK – AUGT 15, 2001
* gay fandom and crossover stardom *
In the procs, he trac a fifty-year history of dience receptn that mov gay male fandom far beyond the realm of “mp” to plac where culturally unthorized fantasi are nurtured, veloped, and shared. DeAngelis exam a variety of cultural documents, cludg stud publicy and promotnal mpaigns, star bgraphi, sndal magaz, and film reviews, as well as gay polil and fan lerature that rang om the closeted pag of One and Mattache Review the 1950s to the very “out” dish lumns, listserv postgs, and on-le star fantasy narrativ of the past . Usg theori of fantasy and melodrama, Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom monstrat how studs, agents, and even stars themselv often actively facilate an dience’s strategic blurrg of the already tenuo distctn between the heterosexual mastream and the gay margs of Amerin popular culture.
“[A] richly nceived and pellgly argued acunt of gay star receptn that will be weled by many the areas of cultural, media and/or queer studi.
GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM: JAM DEAN, MEL GIBSON, AND KEANU REEV
“[A] very readable and engagg look at the makg of gay ins and fans.
‘Is he gay? ’ easily be ‘How would feel if he was gay, and...
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Explor how male film ins are both shaped by—and help shape—gay male styl and cultural reprentatns....
The thor is bt on Jam Dean’s reer, chartg how the actor’s emotnal openns and vulnerabily often ma him ‘look’ gay and how that image was exploed his films (as his highly erotic relatnship wh Sal Meo Rebel Whout a Cse).... DeAngelis’s analysis of cultural trends both gay male and mastream culture is often provotive.
"DeAngelis has been diligent rearchg star bgraphi, film reviews, stud publicy and promotnal mpaigns, as well as straight and gay fan lerature.
GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM
He shows how stud publicy, fan web s, and ‘dish’ lumns reflect changg attus toward gay ins, om Dean’s ‘ and out’ sexualy to Gibson’s heterosexualy to Reev’s ‘panaccsibily. Highly remend for film studi on gay-dience rponse.