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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 9.1 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 9.1 is out now!

 

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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 9.1

 

Articles

 

Direct-to-trans: Aloma and proto-queer VCR technologies of gender in 1980s Greece

By Ursula-Helen Kassaveti

 

The material of the body: Corporeal gender identities and sexual orientation in Darling in the Franxx

By Malte Frey

 

Why aren’t the straight people laughing? Camp reluctance and the therapeutic reflex

By W. C. Harris

 

Intersections and the becomings of disabled and queer subjectivities in Margarita with a Straw

By Heena Kausar and M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef

 

TV Review Essay

 

Derry Girls (2018–22), UK: Hat Trick Productions

By Ekshita Arora

 

Book Reviews

 

The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, Alfred L. Martin, Jr (2021)

By Olivia Stowell

 

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance, John Waters (2022)

By Kelly Stith

 

Male Femininities, Dana Berkowitz, Elroi J. Windsor and C. Winter Han (eds) (2023)

By Jonathan A. Allan

 

TV Review

 

The L Word: Generation Q (2019–23), USA: MLR Originals and Showtime Networks

By Rachel E. Silverman