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Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not `Just a Phase´
Whitney Monaghan
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Description for Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media: Not `Just a Phase´
Hardback. Num Pages: 202 pages, 19 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 219 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
This book takes up the queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video. In 1987, Canada's Degrassi Junior High featured one of TV's first queer teen storylines. Contained to a single episode, it was promptly forgotten within both the series and popular culture more generally. Cut to 2016 - queer girls are now major characters in films and television series around the globe. No longer represented as subsidiary characters within forgettable storylines, queer girls are a regular feature of contemporary screen media. Analysing the terms of this newfound visibility, Whitney Monaghan provides a critical perspective ... Read more
This book takes up the queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video. In 1987, Canada's Degrassi Junior High featured one of TV's first queer teen storylines. Contained to a single episode, it was promptly forgotten within both the series and popular culture more generally. Cut to 2016 - queer girls are now major characters in films and television series around the globe. No longer represented as subsidiary characters within forgettable storylines, queer girls are a regular feature of contemporary screen media. Analysing the terms of this newfound visibility, Whitney Monaghan provides a critical perspective ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137555977
SKU
V9781137555977
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Ref
99-15
About Whitney Monaghan
Whitney Monaghan is a teaching associate in Film & Screen Studies at Monash University. Her background is in screen, media and cultural studies and her research primarily explores the representation of queer and youth identities. She is the editor and founder of Peephole Journal, an experimental publication featuring articles by emerging and established film critics.
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