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Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 7.1-2 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 7.1-2 is out now!

 

Special Issue: ‘Rethinking Marginality in New Queer Television’

 

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 (QSMPC) is a refereed academic journal devoted to the study of representations and expressions of queerness in its various forms. International in scope and representing a wide variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, it publishes scholarship on topics at the intersection of media/popular culture and queerness in gender/sexuality.

 

QSMPC invites articles and artwork pertaining to queerness in media and popular culture, as well as reviews pertaining to recently released queer media artefacts. Novelty and innovation in topic selection and research approach are encouraged.

 

Issue 7.1-2

 

Editorial

 

Rethinking marginality in new queer television

THOMAS BRASSINGTON, DEBRA FERREDAY AND DANIELLE GIRARD

 

Articles

 

From Dorian’s closet to Elektra’s trunk: Visibility, trauma and gender euphoria in Pose

DEBRA FERREDAY

 

‘Show gay people for the often-awful people they are’: Reframing queer monstrosity

THOMAS BRASSINGTON

 

Asexual disruptions in Netflix’s BoJack Horseman

DANIELLE GIRARD

 

Star Trek: Lower Decks and utopian queer intimacy

EILEEN TOTTER

 

Messy queer familias: Negotiating desire, pleasure and melancholia in Vida

RUBEN ERNESTO ZECENA

 

‘What’s important is being in the room’: Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and the politics of queer history

SABRINA MITTERMEIER

 

Transforming and queering identity: The influence of magical girl anime on queerinclusive western animation

KATERINA KARAVODIN

 

‘Sexuality exists on a continuum’: Broad City’s queer take on female friendship

KATHERINE LEHMAN

 

Review

 

What We Do in the Shadows – Season 3, Tig Fong, Yana Gorskaya and Kyle Newacheck (dirs) (2021), USA: FXP

CHESKA MCGOVERN

 

Classic Media Review

 

Southern Comfort, Kate Davis (dir.) (2001), Next Wave Films, HBO

BRUCE E. DRUSHEL