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Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 9.2 is out now!

Intellect is pleased to announce that Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 9.2 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 9.2

 

Editorial

 

Getting animated

BRUCE E. DRUSHEL

 

Articles

 

Animating queer figured worlds: How young adult animation is cultivating queer spaces and narratives

KIMBERLY DENNIN, REBECCA W. BLACK AND JONATHAN ALEXANDER

 

Christ is a magical girl: Queer popular culture and Paradise Lost

MELISSA ROHRER AND SARA AUSTIN

 

‘So now, I had a secret life’: Understanding the queerness of Ratatouille

MATTHEW EVANS

 

Defining the dream: Same-sex marriage on Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings

ANDREW ZOLIDES

 

Queer by numbers, or what is happening to popular discourses of LGBTQ+ media representation?

ROBERT PAYNE

 

Book Reviews

 

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, Cassandra Peterson (2021)

ALISSA BURGER

 

Normporn: Queer Audiences and the TV that Soothes Us, Karen Tongson (2023)

JENNIFER COLLINS

 

Review

 

‘Once More, With Feeling’ (2001), J. Whedon (dir.), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 6 Episode 7 (6 November, USA: UPN)

SILAS MAXWELL SWITZER