Full Description
From the twins Osugi and Peeco to longstanding icon Miwa Akihiro, Claire Maree traces the figure of the Japanese queerqueen, showing how a diversity of gender identifications, sexual orientations, and discursive styles are commodified and packaged together to form this character. Representations of gay men's speech have changed in tandem with gender norms, increasingly crossing over into popular media via the body of the "authentic" gay male up to and including the current "LGBT boom" in Japan. In this context, queerqueen demonstrates how commercial practices of recording, transcribing, and editing spoken interactions and use of on-screen text encode queerqueen speech as inherently excessive and in need of containment. Tackling questions of authenticity, self-censorship, and the restrictions of heteronormativity within this perception of queer excess, Maree shows how queerqueen styles reproduce stereotypes of gender, sexuality, and desire that are essential to the business of mainstream entertainment.
Contents
Introduction
Queerqueens: An Introduction
Chapter One
Booms: Recycling the Visual and Sonic Image of the Queerqueen Figure
Chapter Two
Excess in Print: (Re)tracing Conversational Dialogues
Chapter Three
Queen-personality talk: Writing queens on the Small Screen
Chapter Four
Linguistic Chaos: Hybrid Animation and the Queerqueen
Chapter Five
Beeping Deluxe: Staging Self-censorship and the Limits of Excess
Chapter Six
Heave-ho: Radical Recontextualization
Chapter Seven
Cyclical Movements or Writing Excess
