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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 8.3 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 8.3 is out now!

 

Special Issue: ‘Representing Queerness: Modes, Manners and Methods’

 

This Special Issue stems from the Queer Representation: Pasts, Presents and Futures conference, which took place in 2021 at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

 

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/queer-studies-in-media-popular-culture

 

Aims & Scope

 

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture is devoted to the study of representations and expressions of queerness in its various forms. In this peer-reviewed publication, emphasis is placed on significant trends in various media offerings and forms, consumerism, domestic life, fashion, leisure, politics, spirituality and other noteworthy elements of culture and their connections to minority sexualities and non-traditional gender performance.

 

Issue 8.3

 

Editorial

 

Representing queerness: Modes, manners and methods

ANAMARIJA HORVAT AND ALICE M. KELLY

 

Articles

 

Setting the record ‘straight’: Captain America fanfiction, museums and queer narratives

SUZANNE R. BLACK

 

‘Unsticking’ Kid Cosmic: Lifting the burden of gendered certainty in children’s TV

ABIGAIL JENKINS

 

‘Fun, fierce and frivolous’: Afrobubblegum and the possibilities of queer African love in Rafiki

RACHEL MILNE

 

Together in the future wilderness: CAConrad’s queer appearances

COLLIER NOGUES

 

Screening through silence: The representation of queerness in Retablo (2017)

JAVIER PÉREZ-OSORIO

 

Bosom friends and kindred spirits: Reimagining girlhood, bisexuality and queerness in Anne with an E

SARAH E. S. SINWELL

 

TV Review

 

A League of Their Own (2022), USA: Amazon Prime Video

ANDREA KEBER

 

Book Review

 

In Italia sono tutti maschi, Luca de Santis and Sara Colaone (2019)

ALICE PARRINELLO

 

Film Review

 

Framing Agnes, Chase Joynt (dir.) (2022), Canada: Fae Pictures and Level Ground

CYD STURGESS