A se study of Jam Dean, mel Gibson, and Keanu Reev and how they mata their appeal to both gay and straight dienc.
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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
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Why and how do the appeal of certa male Hollywood stars cross over om straight to gay dienc?
GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM: JAM DEAN, MEL GIBSON, AND KEANU REEV PAPERBACK – AUGT 15, 2001
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 * gay fandom and crossover stardom *
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. 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.
GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM: JAM DEAN, MEL GIBSON, AND KEANU REEV
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. “[A] very readable and engagg look at the makg of gay ins and fans.
‘Is he gay?
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’ easily be ‘How would feel if he was gay, and... 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.
GAY FANDOM AND CROSSOVER STARDOM
"DeAngelis has been diligent rearchg star bgraphi, film reviews, stud publicy and promotnal mpaigns, as well as straight and gay fan lerature. 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.
"Michael De Angelis offers, his Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom, what is perhaps the most pellg acunt to date of how and why some self-intified gay spectators would thect so strongly to certa star personas.
In the procs, De Angelis provis a (necsarily) tnted genealogy of the ntemporary male homosexual subject and the role Hollywood cema has sometim played the creatn of that subject. More than any other recent work on queer receptn, Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom mak clear some of what is at stake readg star imag queerly.... How did Mel Gibson w, and then alienate, a gay dience?