[ecrea] Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 1.2

We are pleased to announce the release of /Queer Studies in Media & 
Popular Culture 1.2/. This//journal is devoted to the study of 
representations and expressions of queerness in its various forms.

This issue has six articles which explore queerness in relation to 
religion, cinema and literature and concludes with a book review and two 
film reviews.

List of contents (partial list):

*Rhetorics of incommensurability: Disarticulating queer Christianity in 
mainstream news coverage of the Soulforce Equality Ride 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/qsmpc/2016/00000001/00000002/art00002> 
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pp. 141-158(18)
*Authors:* /Spencer, Leland G.; Barnett, Joshua Trey/

This article presents a critical rhetorical analysis of mainstream news 
coverage of the Soulforce Equality Ride, an annual bus tour composed of 
mostly queer and trans Christian students who protest Christian colleges 
and universities with anti-queer or anti-trans policies.

*Post-homophobia comes out: The rise of Mormon polygamy in US popular 
culture 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/qsmpc/2016/00000001/00000002/art00003> 
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pp. 159-180(22)
*Authors:* /Bailey, Courtney W.; Zahren, Adam James/

This article analyses how both Sister Wives and news coverage of the 
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) police 
who can become an intelligible US citizen and on what sexual and 
religious grounds.

*Interrogating transnational documentary film evidence on Uganda’s 
homophobia 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/qsmpc/2016/00000001/00000002/art00004> 
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pp. 181-198(18)
*Author:* /Atuhura, Dorothy/

Focusing on three filmic documentaries on Uganda’s homophobia, Atuhura 
argues this media hypervisibility is a global phenomenon.

*(Im)Possibility and (in)visibility: Arguing against ‘just happens to 
be’ in Young Adult literature 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/qsmpc/2016/00000001/00000002/art00005> 
*
pp. 199-214(16)
*Author:* /Bittner, Robert/

The author seeks to trouble the connection between these expectations of 
characters who just happen to be gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, 
and what is possible within the realm of fiction and written text.

*A New Queer Cinema renaissance 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/qsmpc/2016/00000001/00000002/art00006> 
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pp. 215-229(15)
*Author:* /Richards, Stuart/

This article argues that we are currently experiencing a renaissance of 
New Queer Cinema (NQC).

*Culture jamming (and tucking): RuPaul’s Drag Race and unconventional 
reality 
<http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/qsmpc/2016/00000001/00000002/art00007> 
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pp. 231-249(19)
*Author:* /Gudelunas, David/

This article offers a critical analysis of RuPaul’s Drag Race and argues 
that the typical reality competition format is both exploited and 
exposed as a type of culture jamming that is uniquely queer.

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<http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=245/view,page=0/>or 
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