This edited collection will draw attention to how the mainstreamification of queer identities has crafted a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences.
Queer critics and queer theory as a whole tend to frame queer identities as marginal (Sedgwick, 1990; Halberstam, 2011), and these landmark scholars have cemented a foundational understanding of queerness that is now at odds with current shifts in media production. The chapters here will present a broad variety of queer identities from across a range of televisual genres and shows in an effort to reconsider the marginalisation of queerness in the twenty-first century. Doing so challenges pre-existing notions that such mainstreamification necessitates being subsumed by the cisheteropatriarchy. Therefore, the project argues the converse: that heteronormative assumptions are outdated, and new queer representations lay the groundwork for filling gaps that queer criticism has left open.
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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