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This book charts an evolution in gay identity within American reality television and documentary film. Through focusing on the performative potential of gay men, it examines the emergence of the independent gay citizen as a bold new voice rejecting subjugation within the media. Through examining productions as diverse as An American Family, Tongues United, Silverlake Life, The Real World, Paternal Instinct, Trembling Before G-D, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and many others, this book explores how gay people as teens, devoted couples, parents, inspiring individuals and influential producers have contributed to the progression of gay identity in domestic arenas. These portrayals are played out while discussing AIDS, race, religion, the development of same-sex family forms, the issues of procreation and gay marriage and the changing views of gay men as both creative producers and responsible social agents. In these forms of entertainment, gay social actors as political agents challenge dominant ideas, and invent new social worlds.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Constructing Identity, the Politics of Representation, and the American Son
2. Performance and Documentary: Power, Carnival, Confession and Opposition
3. Autobiography and Confessional Performance in Documentary: Politics, AIDS and Family
4. Documenting Youth Identity and The Real World: Testaments, Role Models and Romantic Narratives
5. Nonheterosexual Family Forms: Affirmation, Race and Religion
6. Gay Performers and Discursive Performativity: Alliances, Community and Competition
7. Reproduction and Commodity: Family, Marriage and Service
Conclusion: The Move to the Domestic
Filmography
Appendix 1. White House Press Release
Appendix 2. A Typology of Modes of Individual Adaptation by Robert K. Merton
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
