[Commlist] New Book: New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification

Intellect is pleased to share that /New Queer Television: From 
Marginalization to Mainstreamification 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/new-queer-television>/, edited by Thomas 
Brassington, Debra Ferreday and Dany Girard, is out in hardback and ebook.

Though queer critics and queer theory tend to frame queer identities as 
marginal, this edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which 
a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by 
audiences. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is 
at odds with current shifts in media production, contributors present a 
broad variety of queer identities from across a range of televisual 
shows and genres to reconsider the marginalization of queerness in the 
twenty-first century. Doing so challenges preexisting notions that such 
“mainstreamification” necessitates being subsumed by the 
cisheteropatriarchy. This project argues the opposite, showing that 
heteronormative assumptions are outdated and that new queer 
representations lay the groundwork for filling gaps that queer criticism 
has left open.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*Acknowledgements
Introduction:* The Evolving Landscape of Queer Television – /Dany 
Girard, Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday/

*_Part I: Dramatic Realities
_*
*1.* /Love, Victor/ and the Utopian Function of Networking Queer 
Identity Work – /Sam Hunter/
*2. *Striking Poses of Possibility: Exploring the Transgressive 
Imaginations of the Series /Pose /and its Promotional Posters – /Daphne 
Gershon/
*3. *‘Que soy marimacha’: /Vida/’s Queer Inheritance –/ Laura Stamm/

*Thought Pieces
*- ‘You Cannot Put A Fire Out’: Revisiting Queer Female Histories in 
/Dickinson /– /Sarah E. S. Sinwell/
- Pushing ‘LGBT-Friendliness’ into Japanese Television: A Case Study of 
/My Brother’s Husband/ – /Timo Thelen/

*_Part II: Paratextual Politics
_*
*4. *You Don’t Get Points for Paratext: The Precarity of Queer 
Representation in /Good Omens/ – /Alex Xanthoudakis and Tvine Donabedian/
*5. *Soulmates and Brotherhood: Homosociality and Homosexuality in the 
Chinese Series, /The Untamed/ – /Roxanne Tan/
*6. *Retrospective Queering: LGBTQ Representation in /The Legend of 
Korra/ Television Series and Comics – /Sarah Busch/

*Thought Pieces
*- For the Honor of Gayskull: Why Queer Love Saving the Universe in 
/She-Ra/ /and the Princesses of Power/ Matters – /Colleen Etman/

*_Part III: Generic Possibilities
_*
*7.* Not Just A southern Pansy, Sergeant. the Southern Pansy: /Good 
Omens/’ Queer Representation – /Dawn Stobbart/
*8.* Granting Wishes: Representing Queerness in /American Gods/ – 
/Yaghma Kaby/
*9. *‘It’s called acting! That’s the real magic here’: /She-Ra and the 
Princesses of Power/’s Nonbinary Character Double Trouble as Lens for 
Intersection of Identity, Performativity and Acting – /Harold Bosstick
/*10.*"Those are the worst jobs on the ship:" /Star Trek: Lower Decks/ 
and the Radical Queer Utopia – /Dany Girard/

*Thought Pieces
*- De-Fanged Queerness in /Dracula /Reimagined – /Carey Millsap-Spears/
- /Claws /& Queer Fantasy: The Queer Power of Contemporary Television 
Narrative – /Brecken Hunter Wellborn/
/
/*Coda:* Looking Forward to the Next Season of New Queer Television – 
/Debra Ferreday, Dany Girard, Thomas Brassington/


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