The Ambiguously Gay Duo of Sherlock: Sexual Aesthetics and the Limits of Cinematic Language
Camille DeBose / DePaul University
An examination of the role of sexuality on BBC’s Sherlock.
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Direct-to-Consumer-Advertising and the Archipelago of Medicalization Black Hawk Hancock / DePaul University
Patients and consumers adrift in a sea of groundless for-profit medicalization.
Read moreIt’s (Not) In His Kiss: Gay Kisses, Narrative Strategies, and Camera Angles in Post-Network Television Comedy
Alfred L. Martin, Jr. / The University of Texas at Austin
An examination of the ways in which camera angles and narrative strategies are deployed in representations of same sex intimacy on network television comedies.
Read moreRachel Maddow, School Marm
Janet Staiger / University of Texas at Austin
How Rachel Maddow plays the role of the “school marm” to get her point across.
Read moreCould it Be? It’s Becoming Chic to be Geek
Mary Vanderlinden / Averett University
The Big Bang Theory, television, and geek tropes.
Read more Gaycoms in a Progressive Age?: Partners and The New Normal
Stephen Tropiano / Ithaca College
Obama, Partners, The New Normal, and the question of marriage equality.
Read more“A hole new fashion”: The Polo mint campaign in India
Shanti Kumar/University of Texas at Austin
Nestle, Polo, and the collision of high-end fashion with low-end merchandise.
Read moreBeing Guy Fieri: The “chef-dude” and the geography of a bro kitchen
Irina Mihalache / American University of Paris
Irina Mihalache explores Guy Fieri’s kitchen and demonstrates how the geography of the space and the objects in the kitchen transform a space for cooking into a space for play where even men with tattoos, 1960s red convertibles and electric guitars can feel at ease.
Read moreThe Medical Gaze, Your Health and You Black Hawk Hancock / DePaul University
Black Hawk Hancock draws attention to the ways that direct-to-consumer advertisements (DCTA) work as mirrors to induce us to think about ourselves as bodies, as selves, as patients, and as consumers.
Read moreHow We Talk About Media Refusal, Part 2: Asceticism
Laura Portwood-Stacer / New York University
Digital diets, fasts, cleanses, and the politics of asceticism.
Read morePigmalion: Animality and Failure in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
Andrew Scahill/George Mason University
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and the “white trash spectacle”
Read moreFaux Gender and the New Popularity of Drag Culture
Keara Goin / FLOW Senior Editor
RuPaul’s DragU, while rejecting normative and essentialist gender roles, exposes an “ideal” femininity that is framed in notions of masculinity and leaves us with only the charades of faux gender.
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