Gay Identity, New Storytelling and The Media

CHRISTOPHER PULLEN Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. He is the author of Documenting Gay Men: Identity and Performance in Reality Television and Documentary Film (2007). His research interests relate to the representation and performance of minority identity within contemporary media, and contexts of gender and sexuality.

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Placing the Self Within the Frame New Storytelling: Transitions from the Past Gay Identity and Self-Reflexivity Community, History and Transformation Factual Media Space: Intimacy, Participation and Therapy Commodity and Family Teenage Identity and Ritual Other Storytelling and the New Frontier Conclusion: Cohesion, Fragmentation and 'Becoming' Notes Filmography Works Cited Index