New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 183595006X ISBN 13: 9781835950067

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2025

Synopsis

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 This project argues the opposite, showing that heteronormative assumptions are outdated and that new queer representations lay the groundwork for filling gaps that queer criticism has left open.

Thomas Brassington is a researcher whose work explores intersections of queerness and the Gothic in contemporary popular culture. Debra Ferreday is a feminist cultural theorist whose research concerns gender, feminist theory, sexuality, critical race theory, queer theory, and embodiment. Dany Girard is a queer researcher whose work primarily explores representations of gender, asexualities, and queer theory in television and film.

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About the Authors

Thomas Brassington is a Ph.D. researcher at Lancaster University. 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.

Contact: English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW, UK.

Debra Ferreday is a senior lecturer in media, gender and cultural studies at Lancaster University. Her work explores the ways in which embodied subjectivity is negotiated through media participation and consumption, focusing on intersections of gender, race, sexuality, class, dis/ability and power. She is currently working on a project titled ‘Post-Traumatic Media: Screening Survivor Experience’.

Contact: Department of Sociology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 4YT, UK.

Dr Danielle Girard received their Ph.D. from 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, feminine expression and pop culture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 183595006X
• ISBN 13: 9781835950067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Brassington Thomas, Ferreday Debra, Girard Dany