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How are we to make sense of the transformation in gay representation-- from virtual invisibility before 1970 to the "gay chic" of today?
Off the Straight & Narrow is the first in-depth documentary to cast a critical eye over the growth of gay images on TV. Leading media scholars provide the historical and cultural context for exploring the social implications of these new representations.
Off the Straight & Narrow challenges viewers to consider the value and limits of available gay images: who is represented, what they get to say, and how people respond to them. The video is an invaluable tool for all educators interested in introducing students to issues of representation and diversity in the media.
Featuring interviews with: Edward Alwood, Richard Dyer, John Erni, Larry Gross, Lisa Henderson, Marguerite Moritz, Charles Nero, and Sasha Torres.
Sections: The Early Years | The AIDS Crisis | Saints, Singles, and Celibates | Representations of Bisexuality | Race and Sexuality | The Case of Ellen | Gay Images, Queer Pleasure
Duration: 63 min
ISBN: 1-893521-64-8
Date Produced: 1998
Discussion Guide
Transcript
Filmmaker Info
Executive Producer: Sut Jhally
Producer, Director, Editor: Katherine Sender
Consultant: Larry Gross
Filmmaker's Bio
KATHERINE SENDER | Producer, Director, & Editor
Katherine Sender is Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. She is author of
Business, not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market,
which was nominated for the 2006 International Communication
Association Best Book Award. She has also published numerous articles,
including the forthcoming
Dualcasting: Bravo's Gay Programming and the Quest for Women Audiences and
Professional Homosexuals: The Politics of Sexual Identification in Gay and Lesbian Media and Marketing.
She was a 2006 recipient of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women's
Summer Research Award. Katherine is also the producer of MEF films
Further Off the Straight & Narrow: New Gay Visibility on Television, 1998-2006 (2006) and
Recovering Bodies: Overcoming Eating Disorders (1997).
Film Festivals
Inside Out: Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film & Video Festival 2000
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"An unusually accessible yet sophisticated educational resource."
- Joan M. Garry | Executive Director, GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
"Off the Straight and Narrow explores the history of television's treatment of lesbians, bisexuals, and gays, from the infamous 1960 CBS special where gay men were interviewed hidden behind a potted plant, through the disastrous early AIDS coverage, up to Ellen's famous coming out on prime time TV."
- Donna Lee King, Teaching Sociology
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