Queer love in film and television: critical essays

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Introduction Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen PART I: ROMANCE 1. The Living End , or, Love Without a Future Damon R. Young 2. Bad Boys Need Love, Too: The Cinematic Negativity of Gay Romance in I Love You Phillip Morris Kenneth Chan 3. Romancing the Soap: Representations of Gay Love and Relationships in EastEnders Peri Bradley 4. Love's Narrative Lost: Romance Interrupted in The L Word Kathleen Brown and Brett Westbrook 5. It's Not So Easy For Two Men to Be a Couple': Revisiting Gay Dating in Will & Grace and Queer as Folk Ben Aslinger 6. True Love Queered: Sex, Melodrama, and Romance in Queer as Folk Pamela Demory PART II: MARRIAGE AND FAMILY 7. Donor Conception in Lesbian and Non-Lesbian Film and Television Families Julia Erhart 8. Housebroken: Homodomesticity and the Normalization of Queerness in Modern Family Steven Edward Doran 9. Family Guys: Same-Sex Parenting and Masculinity in Modern Family Peter C. Kunze 10. Allegories of Queer Love: Quality Television and the Reimagining of the American Family Jessica Murrell and Hannah Stark 11. 'Queer' (In)tolerance in Children's Animated Films Richard D. Reitsma PART III: THE MARGINS 12. 'Fearless Vulgarity:' Camp Love as Queer Love for Jackie Susann and Valley of the Dolls Ken Feil 13. 'Can I Get An 'Amen'?' Marginalized Communities and Self-Love on Ru-Paul's Drag Race Jessica Hicks 14. Trans Love in New Trans Cinema Nicole Richter 15. No Skin Off My Ass : Bruce LaBruce and the Curious Case of Queer Punk Love Curran NAult 16. Queer Negotiations Between Love and Work: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study of a Gay Porn Star Michael Johnson Jr. 17. Playing With Himself: James Franco, Hollywood Queer Adrian Jones PART IV: ADAPTING QUEERLY 18. Temporality and Queer Consciousness in The House of Mirth Jim Ellis 19. The Talented Mr. Ripley : A '50s Homme Fatal for the New Millennium Scott F. Stoddart 20. Ford's A Single Man and Bachardy's Chris and Don : The Aesthetic and Domestic Body of Isherwood Christopher Pullen 21. Notes on a Scandal , Teacher's Edition Adam Sonstegard 22. The Ethics of Alterity: Adapting Queerness in Brokeback Mountain Matthew Bolton