Physical Description:print viii, 549 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Publisher:Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. 1: B+ could try harder. Diary of a scandal -- History of an error -- Pt. 2: American falsettos. Gay identity and its discontents -- Homosexuality's closet -- What's gayer than gay? -- The queen is not dead -- Pt. 3: Why are the drag queens laughing? Culture and genre -- The passion of the Crawford -- Suffering in quotation marks -- The beauty and the camp -- Pt. 4: Mommie queerest. Gay family romance -- Men act, women appear -- The sexual politics of genre -- Tragedy into melodrama -- Pt. 5: Bitch baskets. Gay femininity -- Gender and genre -- The meaning of style -- Irony and misogyny -- Pt. 6: What is gay culture? Judy Garland vs. identity art -- Culture vs. subculture -- Queer forever.
Book
