Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture

1. Introduction
Giuseppe Balirano, Paul Baker

2. Is the Rectum a Gold Mine? Queer Theory, Consumer Masculinities, and Capital Pleasures
Tommaso M. Milani

3. Masculinity and Gay-Friendly Advertising: A Comparative Analysis Between the Italian and US Market
Eleonora Federici, Andrea Bernardelli

4. Come and Get Your Love: Starsky & Hutch, Disidentification, and US Masculinities in the 1970s
Vincenzo Bavaro

5. The Televisual Representation of Ageing Gay Males: The Case of Vicious

Laura Tommaso

6. The Queer Peer: Masculinity and Brotherhood in Cain and Abel Literature and Imagination
Paola Gennaro

7. An Effortless Voice: Queer Vocality and Transgender Identity in Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy

Serena Guarracino

8. Painting Social Change on a Body Canvas: Trans Bodies and Their Social Impact
Emilia Martino

9. Neapolitan Social-Transgenderism: The Discourse of Valentina OK
Annalisa Nuzzo

10. Undoing Black Masculinity: Isaac Julien’s Alternative Grammar of Visual Representation
Emilio Amideo

11. ‘You Cry Gay, You’re In’: The Case of Asylum Seekers in the UK
Maria Cristina Nisco

12. The Object of Subordination Is Immaterial: Discursive Constructions of Masculinity in a Far-Right Online Forum
Andrew Brindle

Nyckelord: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Gender Studies, Pragmatics, Linguistic Anthropology, Queer Cinema, Discourse Analysis