Queering the South on Screen

Edited by Tison Pugh

Title Details

Pages: 314

Illustrations: 25 b&w photos

Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in

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Hardcover

Pub Date: 04/15/2020

ISBN: 9-780-8203-5653-2

List Price: $104.95

Paperback

Pub Date: 04/15/2020

ISBN: 9-780-8203-5672-3

List Price: $36.95

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Published with the generous support of Matthew Ramsey

Queering the South on Screen

Edited by Tison Pugh

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  • Contributors

Within the realm of American culture and its construction of its citizenry, geography, and ideology, who are southerners and who are queers, and what is the South and what is queerness? Queering the South on Screen addresses these questions by examining the intersections of queerness, regionalism, and identity depicted in film, television, and other visual media about the South during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Southern queers on screen often reflect the fantasy of cultural stereotypes. Editor Tison Pugh contends that when southern queers appear in films and on television, and when southern queers watch these portrayals, the inherent contradictions of these cultural depictions reveal the fault lines of gender, geography, and desire. These underlying schisms point to the infinite, if infrequently portrayed, possibilities of actual queer southern life.

Examining a range of materials, including gothic horror films and drag queens on public-access television, the contributors show that queer southerners have always expressed desires for distinctiveness in the making and consumption of visual media. Read together, the introduction and twelve chapters deconstruct premeditated labels of identity such as queer and southern. In doing so, they expose the reflexive nature of these labels to construct ideological fantasies of southerners regardless of the complexity of their lives.

Eric G. Anderson

Ted Atkinson

R. Brasell

Scott Combs

Darren Elliott-Smith

Joe Edward Hatfield

David Markus

Margaret T. McGehee

D. Matthew Ramsey

Jeff Solomon

Jessica Walker

About the Author/Editor

TISON PUGH is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of Queer Chivalry: Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature; Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon; and Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies (Georgia).