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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Relates steamy fiction and film to heady theory
Rating a difficult book such as this 5 stars obviously implies that I am comparing the book to its peers: works of scholarship in gay and lesbian studies that seek to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and to say something synthetic and theoretical about the very possibility of "representing" gay men (in this case) and lesbians. Jackson knows...
Published on September 21, 2000 by Doug Steward
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
a difficult and obtuse read, for the scholar only.
Although this book has plenty of information, the vast majority of it is presented in such a lenghty and wordy manner that it is very difficult to follow, much less to understand. Any reader will be sure to find something useful and interesting in the various topics covered, but be prepared to be completely lost on a regular basis.
Published on May 13, 1998 by djhwtynkht@aol.com
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Relates steamy fiction and film to heady theory,
By Doug Steward (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation (Theories of Representation and Difference) (Paperback)
Rating a difficult book such as this 5 stars obviously implies that I am comparing the book to its peers: works of scholarship in gay and lesbian studies that seek to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries and to say something synthetic and theoretical about the very possibility of "representing" gay men (in this case) and lesbians.Jackson knows contemporary gay fiction and the critical language about narrative, he knows gay cinema and the critical language about cinema, and he knows psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory like the back of his hand. His book is a tour de force that relates steamy fiction and film to heady theory in useful, clever, and illuminating ways.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
a difficult and obtuse read, for the scholar only.,
By djhwtynkht@aol.com (Boston, MA.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation (Theories of Representation and Difference) (Paperback)
Although this book has plenty of information, the vast majority of it is presented in such a lenghty and wordy manner that it is very difficult to follow, much less to understand. Any reader will be sure to find something useful and interesting in the various topics covered, but be prepared to be completely lost on a regular basis.
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Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation (Theories of Representation and Difference) by Earl Jackson (Paperback - June 22, 1995)
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