{"product_id":"up-from-invisibility-lesbians-gay-men-and-the-media-in-america-paperback","title":"Up from Invisibility: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLarry Gross\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of diversity, does the emerging \"visibility\" of gay men and women do justice to the complexity and variety of their experience? Or is gay identity manipulated and contrived by media that are unwilling--and perhaps unable--to fully comprehend and honor it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile positive representations of gays and lesbians are a cautious step in the right direction, media expert Larry Gross argues that the entertainment and news media betray a lingering inability to break free from proscribed limitations in order to embrace the complex reality of gay identity. While noting major advances, like the opening of the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookstore--the first gay bookstore in the country--or the rise of The Advocate from small newsletter to influential national paper, Gross takes the measure of somewhat more ambiguous milestones, like the first lesbian kiss on television or the first gay character in a newspaper comic strip.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLarry Gross is Sol Worth Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eContested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing, \u003c\/i\u003e editor of \u003ci\u003eImage Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOn the Margins of Art Worlds, \u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor (with the late James Woods) of \u003ci\u003eThe Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.96 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 26, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101021048912,"sku":"9780231119535","price":68.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/dExMVm1KT2kvKzRCd2lmMWI1eTlmZz09.webp?v=1772028018","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/up-from-invisibility-lesbians-gay-men-and-the-media-in-america-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}