Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys and Same-sex Desire in Film and Television
- ISBN-10
- 1560233494
- ISBN-13
- 9781560233497
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 221
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Jeffery P. Dennis
Description
This study analyses more than 200 movies and TV shows to discover whether the overwhelming boy-meets-girl content of the majority of popular teen movies, music, books and TV are just a cover for an undercurrent of same sex desire. It analyses from the 1950's of Frankie Avalon onwards.
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