Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Popular Culture, Queer Culture -- 1 The Three Phases of Ellen: From Queer to Gay to Postgay -- 2 Queering/Quaring Blackness in Noah's Arc -- 3 All My (Queer) Children: Disrupting Daytime Desire in Pine Valley -- 4 Queer as Folk and the Spectacularization of Gay Identity -- 5 Fashionably Femme: Lesbian Visibility, Style, and Politics in The L Word -- 6 "Reading for It": Lesbian Readers Constructing Culture and Identity through Textual Experience -- 7 Reading and Queering Plato in Hedwig and the Angry Inch -- 8 Diva Interventions: Dana International and Israeli Gender Culture -- 9 Arse Bandits: Exploring Nostalgic Representations of Queerness in Gangster Films -- 10 Straight Shooters, Stainless-Steel Stories, and Cowboy Codes: The Queer Frontier and American Identity in a Post-Western World -- 11 New Queer White Trash Cinema -- 12 Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West -- 13 Why (not) Queer?: Ambivalence about "Politics" and Queer Identification in an Online Community in Taiwan -- 14 Reconfiguring Differences: Radicalizing Popular Culture Pedagogy -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.