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"Critical Queer Studies" examines contemporary films and documentaries that dramatize the intersection of law and queer life, analysing the effects of legal doctrines-jury selection, unwanted sexual advance, negligence, hate crimes, and gay marriage-on the production and reception of queer film and fiction. Exploring the interaction of these discourses by discussing internationally-known American films, the book demonstrates how the law maintains its hold over the queer subject through promoting certain ideological fictions and conversely how film and literature draw upon the material realities of queer legal status to dramatize conflicts between law and the marginalized subject. "Critical Queer Studies" synthesizes queer studies, law and literature, and film studies, engaging these fields to show how the struggle for gay and lesbian rights has influenced the production of film and fiction.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Critical Queer Studies
• Author: Casey Charles
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 202
• EAN: 9781409444060
• ISBN: 1409444066
• ID: 04783305
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 522 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. June 2012

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