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by Maria San Filippo


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Often disguised in public discourse by terms like "gay," "homoerotic," "homosocial," or "queer," bisexuality is strangely absent from queer studies and virtually untreated in film and media criticism. Maria San Filippo aims to explore the central role bisexuality plays in contemporary screen culture, establishing its importance in representation, marketing, and spectatorship. By examining a variety of media genres including art cinema, sexploitation cinema and vampire films, "bromances," and series television, San Filippo discovers "missed moments" where bisexual readings of these texts reveal a more malleable notion of subjectivity and eroticism. San Filippo's work moves beyond the subject of heteronormativity and responds to "compulsory monosexuality," where it's not necessarily a couple's gender that is at issue, but rather that an individual chooses one or the other. The B Word transcends dominant relational formation (gay, straight, or otherwise) and brings a discursive voice to the field of queer and film studies.

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  • Title The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television
  • Author Maria San Filippo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 294
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2013-04-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780253008855 / 0253008859
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Bisexuality in motion pictures, Bisexuality on television
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012042177
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.430

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  • Choice, 10/01/2013, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/29/2013, Page 0

About the author

Maria San Filippo has taught film and television studies, and gender and sexuality studies, at MIT, Harvard University, UCLA, and Wellesley College. Her work has appeared in the journals CineAction, Cineaste, English Language Notes, Film History, In Media Res, Journal of Bisexuality, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Senses of Cinema and the anthologies Global Art Cinema and Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema.

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