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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 by looking 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 representa

Who reads Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media : Not ‘Just a Phase’?

Author

Whitney Monaghan (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137555984

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Performing Arts, Sports