Overview
- A comprehensive analysis of the representation of queer girls in film and television
- A unique look at the ways that sexuality is represented within screen texts featuring queer girls
- An exclusive take on the temporalities of queer girlhood on the contemporary screen
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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 on this, arguing that a temporal logic underpins many representations of queer girlhood. Examining an archive of screen texts that includes teen television series and teenpics, art-house, queer and independent cinemas as well as new forms of digital video, she expands current discourse on both queer representation and girls’ studies bylooking at sexuality through themes of temporality. This book, the first full-length study of its kind, draws on concepts of boredom, nostalgia and transience to offer a new perspective on queer representation in contemporary screen media.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media
Book Subtitle: Not ‘Just a Phase’
Authors: Whitney Monaghan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55598-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55597-7Published: 29 April 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55598-4Published: 20 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 192
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film Theory, Media Studies, Gender Studies, Screen Performance