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Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
Larry Gross
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Description for Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
Hardback. Gross traces the relation of lesbians and gays to the media and astutely points to the latter's lingering inability to embrace the complex reality of gay identity. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; 3JM; HBT; JFD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging "visibility" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling-and ... Read more
A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging "visibility" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling-and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231119528
SKU
V9780231119528
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About Larry Gross
Larry Gross is Sol Worth Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing, editor of Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television and On the Margins of Art Worlds, and coeditor (with the late James Woods) ... Read more
Reviews for Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America
A readable account of the gradual emergence of a gay-lesbian presence in news, entertainment, and advertising over the last fifty years.
James Boylan Columbia Journalism Review This scholarly study is engaging and readable. Library Journal Not only adds to our understanding of the culture but also encompasses material from an impressive number of venues that should be, but often ... Read more
James Boylan Columbia Journalism Review This scholarly study is engaging and readable. Library Journal Not only adds to our understanding of the culture but also encompasses material from an impressive number of venues that should be, but often ... Read more