Love and Money: Queers, Class, and Cultural Production

Index

100% Women (documentary film), 116 accumulation, 152, 154, 177n10 Adorno, Theodor, 19 African Americans, 9–10, 36 All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (MacDonald ), 75 Allison, Dorothy, 73–100; “A Lesbian Appetite ,” 84; “A Question of Class,” 92–93; Bastard Out of Carolina, 17, 74; Belton, Lee (pseudonym of attendee at Allison lecture), 94–97; Cavedweller, 84, 95; class, 18, 72–73, 76–77, 79; class relay, 166; Frank, Joanna (pseudonym of attendee at Allison lecture), 93–94; GLASS fund-raiser, 78–79; interview with Burt Garrison, 80–82; interview with Michael Patrick MacDonald, 75–79; Left, the, 173n20; public events, 18, 172n3; readers of, class identity of, 17–18; readers’ responses to, 78, 93, 97–98; reception of her work, 74; recognition, 166; redemption , 95; San Francisco Queer Arts Festival , 83–84; sex as sustenance, 84; sexual radicalism, 89; Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature, 92–93; sociological imagination of, 173n20; Trash, 78, 79, 84; Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, 17, 84, 95; University of Pennsylvania, 85–86; working-class escapees, 77, 82–83 Alma Beers (character in Brokeback Mountain ), 142–143, 144–145, 146 Alma Beers, Jr. (character in Brokeback Mountain), 143, 144 Alotta, Bob, 110 America Gangster (film), 125 Amy (character in If These Walls Could Talk II), 50–53 Andrew (character in Me and You and Everyone We Know), 63, 68 Anthology Film Archives, 101 anti-relationality, 165, 177n9 Arnette, Jeanette, 29 Ashbery, John, 151, 154, 166 Aspen, Joey, 115 Austen Powers: International Man of Mystery (film), 103 bad attachments, 145–146 bad objects, 151–152 bad queers, 34, 39 Badiou, Alain, 153 Barbara (attendee at Allison lecture), 85–91 Barney, Matthew, 113 Barney Stinson (character in How I Met Your Mother), 53 Bartels, Larry M., 155–156, 157, 158 Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 103 Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison), 17, 74 Bastard Out of Carolina (film), 172n3 Beals, Jennifer, 44 Belton, Lee (pseudonym of attendee at Allison lecture), 94–97 Benny (character in “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” episode of George Lopez), 39 Berlant, Lauren, 130–134; Ashbery, John, 166; bad attachments, 145–146; cruel optimism, 150–151; “Exchange Value” (Johnson), 151–153; feelings cultivated over time, 75; The Female Complaint, 7, 22, 130–134, 154; as inspiration, 7; juxtapolitical practices, 22, 130; “political, not politics,” 133; political affect, analysis of, 159; public culture, political possibilities of, 7; sentimental fantasy, 131; Show Boat (Ferber), 131; Showboat 1988: The Remake (film), 131–132 Index 192 > 193 Christine Jesperson (character in Me and You and Everyone We Know), 17, 60–61, 64, 68 City Arts and Lectures Series (San Francisco ), 75 Claire Dunphy (character in Modern Family ), 53 class, 1–8, 70–77; Allison, Dorothy, 18, 72–73, 76–77, 79; in Boys Don’t Cry (film), 14, 29, 30; Brokeback Mountain (film), 143–144, 150; in commercial media, 33; cultural formation of, 161; cultural production, 3; cultural studies of, 30; culture, 5; definition, 5, 161–162; discourse about in United States, 161–162; displacement on race, gender, etc., 71; everyday contexts, 4; expression of, 161; in Friday Night Lights (television series), 56; Jewishness, 88; liberalism, 5, 161–162; “life styles,” 88–89; manners, 86, 88; Marxism, 5, 161–162; material and symbolic dimensions, 33; means of production, 162; in Modern Family (television series), 32; professional dispositions, 89; queer culture, 1; queerness , 5, 7–8, 25, 30, 34, 73–74, 161; race, 36; reading, 88; in Roseanne (television series), 57; same-sex marriage, 6; sexual difference, 1; sexuality, 3, 30; status, 70–71, 161; in Will & Grace (television series), 32; working, motives for, 88 class difference, 12–13, 57–58 class disavowal, 89 class “escapees,” 77, 82–83, 173n19 class fantasy, 4, 16 class hierarchy: class history, 163; queerness, 3, 10; shame, 30; wealth, 157 class history, 163 class identification, 33, 80–81, 99 class mentors, 76–77, 79 class mobility, 40–41, 42, 80, 164 class politics, redistribution and, 71 class projects: definition, 33; pervasiveness of, 18; of queer visibility, 34, 37, 57–59 class recognition, 71–73, 99, 100, 150 Cleo (character in Set It Off), 51–53 Cliff Huxtable (character in Cosby Show), 47 Clint (character in Cavedweller), 95 Clinton, Bill, 35 Codikow, Stacy, 111 Colfer, Chris, 53 commerce, 18–19, 101 commercial media: class in, 33; films by “outsiders,” 122–123; non-queer actors, 125; queerness, 123; short films, 114–115; U.S. and European cinematic traditions, 141 commercial production, 19 commercial repressive hypothesis (CRH), 19–20, 102 complaint...