TY - BOOK ID - 77895345 TI - The B word PY - 2013 SN - 1299466850 0253008921 9780253008923 9780253008794 0253008794 9780253008855 0253008859 9781299466852 PB - Bloomington DB - UniCat KW - Bisexuality on television. KW - Bisexuality in motion pictures. KW - Bisexuals on television KW - Television KW - Motion pictures KW - Bisexuals KW - Bisexuality KW - Bisexual people. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77895345 AB - "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." -- ER -