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Overall, Feeling Normal provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field. This book will serve those interested in cultural studies, media studies, and LGBTQ studies well.
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~Critical Studies in Media Communication
""Offers a piercing examination of modern identity politics focused on relationships among new forms of media consumption and marketplaces, urban centers, and the experiences of sexual minorities. ... Feeling Normal is a must-read for scholars and students in queer studies and communication, media studies, film studies, and sociology.""
~Choice Reviews
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"Altogether, Griffin's analysis provides a pathway for understanding how gay and lesbian media, including films like Elena Undone, can make LGBTQ people feel normal. Furthermore, he underlines the importance of these feelings for identifying media's discursive role in constructing the boundaries of gay and lesbian citizenship."
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~Mobile Media & Communication
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Griffin offers a compelling analysis of how sexual desire and identity are created, circulated, and consumed in contemporary media culture... [The book] provides an important addition to the existing scholarship in the field.
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~Critical Studies in Media Communication
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There are certain scholars and critics who have a knack for combining a theoretically rich analysis of a varied archive with a distinctive voice. Griffin is one of those. While never lacking in rigor or scholarly address, the book does have moments of genuine humor, when it is clear that Griffin understands the ironic posture that many queer people take toward the media that they consume. As such, Feeling Normal, while scholarly in outlook and perspective, is actually a pleasure to read.
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~Information, Communication, & Society
"As a guide to emerging queer media of our new century, Hollis Griffin is funny, generous, passionate, and lucid. Whether he's explaining Grindr's memes or the gayborhoods of Chicago, cable travel programs or online networks, Griffin discovers how it feels to be queer in the digital age."
~Amy Villarejo, Author of Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire
