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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"queer representation"”.
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Firing the Canon: Queer Representation in the Magical Girl Genre
<p>This research delves into the impact queer representation in the shoujo (Japanese for young girl) genre has on audiences. More specifically, the “Magical Girl” (a subgenre of shoujo) genre’s main focus is about ordinary girls whose lives are drastically changed when they are given magical …
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Anadem An Exploration of Queer Representation and Dress in Young Adult (YA) Dystopia
… preference for portraying its ruling classes as queer coded and over-indulgent. Within the creative element I explore how and why a fictional dystopian world order might result in its ruling class adopting a queer sub-community’s modes of existence. As such the creative element of Anadem: An …
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Queer Public Figures in Biopics
This work considers the impact of queer representation and queer visibility in the biopic genre, with a specific focus on the morality of artifice when representing the life story of a real figure. How does a figure’s representation impact their legacy, reputation, and the perception of queer …
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Street Queens and Clean Teens: Melodramatic Approaches to AIDS in Young Adult Literature and Popular Culture
… and HIV/AIDS. Focused on the development of queer representation, I argue that melodrama deserves more attention from children’s literature scholars as a barometer of the field’s ideological work, yielding its own aesthetic conventions which resonate across centuries of melodramatic culture. …
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Unbinding Piratical Themes: Treasure Island, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, and Piratical History
… Silver popularized but also works to provide queer representation and a tale of gender transgression. Themes of freedom and ambiguity prevail throughout <em>The Unbinding</em>, as Reade rejects oppressive society on land in favor of truly expressing her undefined gender and sexuality on the …
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Translation, gender in Disney’s live-action productions: a translation studies perspective on the representation of gender stereotypes in Pinocchio, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast
This study investigates how gender representation is rewritten in Disney’s live-action adaptations of Beauty and the Beast (Condon 2017), Aladdin (Ritchie 2019), and Pinocchio (Zemeckis 2022), through the lens of Translation Studies. It draws on Lefevere’s theory of translation as rewriting, …
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Mediating the Marginal: A Computational Analysis of Representational Hierarchies, Aesthetic Tourism, and Queer Imagination on Instagram
… bolstered visual hegemony, expanding Black and queer representation and visibility through a new vanguard of empowered visual creators, while also facilitating old traditions of oppression and co-option with an unprecedented precision, surveillance, and opacity. This project leverages a …
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Anthropophagic Queer: A Study on Abjected Bodies and Brazilian Queer Theory
… literature and film in order to discuss queer theory and its ability to resonate with, and bring to light, specifically Brazilian concerns. The main argument of this dissertation is that, on one hand, such ideas and theories may change local perspectives; and that, on the other, they are …