[ecrea] Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 3.1

Intellect is delighted to announce that the new issueof/Queer Studies in 
Media & Popular Culture 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3489/>/(3.1) 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3489/>is now 
available.


Articles within this issue reconsider queer history and historical texts 
employing a variety of approaches, including:


S(t)imulating history: Queer historical play in Gone Home and The 
Tearoom <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=25706/>

Authors: Zachary Harvat

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    In this article, the author analyses two recent videogames about
    queer history, Gone Home (2013) and The Tearoom (2017), to
    demonstrate the potential of play as a method of queer historical
    engagement. Responding to recent scholarship on queer history and
    nostalgia in popular culture, Harvat contends that videogames offer
    novel ways for interacting with the past that foreground the
    positive affective dimensions of play (joy, pleasure, camp, humour,
    etc.) without denying the realities of historical trauma and injury.
    It argues that queer historical play is an alternative method for
    engaging with the queer past that breaks from the overwhelming
    emphasis on trauma and the antisocial in queer studies of history
    and queer studies more broadly.

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Lesbian chic, femme-inity and feminist dialogue: Reflecting on The L 
Word <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=25704/>

Authors: Claire Carter

Page Start: 67


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    Showtime’s The L Word, which aired from 2004–09, attracted a broad
    audience in part by featuring a caricature of lesbianism that is
    heteronormatively appealing – femme, white and cosmopolitan. Drawing
    on queer popular culture and scholarship on The L Word, this article
    analyses several of the show’s scenes in order to challenge
    interpretations of the show as geared for the male gaze and of the
    lesbian chic as un-subversive. Strategic appeal of the lesbian chic
    ideal seductively brings viewers in, but once there, they encounter
    moments of feminist dialogue on identity politics, violence against
    women and representation as well as a queering of dominant
    representations of femininity.

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Pink dreams, blue world: Power, fantasy and desire in Alain Berliner’s 
Ma Vie en Rose 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=25705/>

Authors: Nolan Boyd

Page Start: 87


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    Alain Berliner’s film Ma Vie en Rose(1997) tells the story of
    Ludovic Fabre, a young transgender girl living in a suburban
    community outside of Paris. The film uses Ludovic’s story as a lens
    through which to examine the social policing of queerness and
    transgender embodiment. This article joins other previously
    published work about the film in reading it through a Foucauldian
    lens in order to examine the extent to which social power structures
    lend shape to normative understandings of gender identity and
    expression, but this article’s intervention lies in its combination
    of this Foucauldian perspective with a Lacanian psychoanalytic
    approach that invokes Lacan’s territory of the real, symbolic and
    imaginary and the authorization of social ‘law’ within this psychic
    terrain. Boyd argues that the film’s powerful deployment of desire
    and fantasy can be analysed within a psychoanalytic framework to
    delineate the operations of social power and illuminate the extent
    to which queer gender expression is rendered outlaw and abject
    within hegemonic normative society.

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