New Queer Television

From Marginalization to Mainstreamification

Thomas Brassington (Lancaster University), Debra Ferreday (Lancaster University), Dany Girard (Lancaster University)

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Intellect Books
10 March 2025

Television; TV & society; Gay & Lesbian studies

How televisual queer identities entered and transformed the mainstream.

Though queer critics and queer theory tend to frame queer identities as marginal, this edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is at odds with current shifts in media production, contributors present a broad variety of queer identities from across a range of televisual shows and genres to reconsider the marginalization of queerness in the twenty-first century. Doing so challenges preexisting notions that such ""mainstreamification"" necessitates being subsumed by the cisheteropatriarchy. This project argues the opposite, showing that heteronormative assumptions are outdated and that new queer representations lay the groundwork for filling gaps that queer criticism has left open.

Edited by: Thomas Brassington (Lancaster University), Debra Ferreday (Lancaster University), Dany Girard (Lancaster University)
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 541g
ISBN: 9781835950067
ISBN 10: 183595006X
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 10 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Acknowledgements Introduction: The Evolving Landscape of Queer Television Dany Girard, Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday Part I: Dramatic Realities 1. Love, Victor and the Utopian Function of Networking Queer Identity Work Sam Hunter 2. Striking Poses of Possibility: Exploring the Transgressive Imaginations of the Series Pose and its Promotional Posters Daphne Gershon 3. ‘Que soy marimacha’: Vida’s Queer Inheritance Laura Stamm Thought Pieces ‘You Cannot Put A Fire Out’: Revisiting Queer Female Histories in Dickinson Sarah E. S. Sinwell Pushing ‘LGBT-Friendliness’ into Japanese Television: A Case Study of My Brother’s Husband Timo Thelen Part II: Paratextual Politics 4. You Don’t Get Points for Paratext: The Precarity of Queer Representation in Good Omens Alex Xanthoudakis and Tvine Donabedian 5. Soulmates and Brotherhood: Homosociality and Homosexuality in the Chinese Series, The Untamed Roxanne Tan 6. Retrospective Queering: LGBTQ Representation in The Legend of Korra Television Series and Comics Sarah Busch Thought Pieces For the Honor of Gayskull: Why Queer Love Saving the Universe in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Matters Colleen Etman Part III: Generic Possibilities 7. Not Just A southern Pansy, Sergeant. the Southern Pansy: Good Omens’ Queer Representation Dawn Stobbart 8. Granting Wishes: Representing Queerness in American Gods Yaghma Kaby 9. ‘It’s called acting! That’s the real magic here’: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power’s Nonbinary Character Double Trouble as Lens for Intersection of Identity, Performativity and Acting Harold Bosstick 10.""Those are the worst jobs on the ship:"" Star Trek: Lower Decks and the Radical Queer Utopia Dany Girard Thought Pieces De-Fanged Queerness in Dracula Reimagined Carey Millsap-Spears Claws & Queer Fantasy: The Queer Power of Contemporary Television Narrative Brecken Hunter Coda: Looking Forward to the Next Season of New Queer Television Debra Ferreday, Dany Girard, Thomas Brassington "

Dr Thomas Brassington received his PhD from Lancaster University, UK. His project, Dragging the Gothic, explores the phenomena of cross-dressing in the Gothic mode through the lens of drag performance. His research interests are in contemporary Gothic, femininities, popular culture and queer Gothic more broadly. Dr Debra Ferreday is a feminist cultural theorist with strong research interests in gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory and embodiment. Her research engages with embodied and social aspects of new media and digital cultures, celebrity culture, media and violence, fan studies, sexuality studies and mad studies. Dr Dany Girard received their PhD from Lancaster University, UK. They currently work as a Senior Teaching Associate in Media and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University. Their thesis mapped the evolution of paratextual queer fiction (slash fan fiction) being produced in conjunction to the original series of Star Trek. They are currently working on both an edited collection and special issue on new queer television. Their research interests revolve around queerbaiting, queer(ed) and trans bodies in horror TV and film, disordered eating and dysphoria, feminine expression and pop culture.