Journal article
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me: the ambivalent queer of post-network television
New review of film and television studies, Vol.17(2), pp.131-147
04/03/2019
DOI: 10.1080/17400309.2019.1602981
Abstract
This essay reassesses the deregulation of the American television industry and the rise of identitarian premium cable channels in the context of a new screen presence that has, since the early-2000s, advanced more provocative representations of sexual non-normativity than those found on network programming. This figure, the ambivalent queer of post-network TV, is a libidinous and morally suspect individual often found on premium GLBTQ cable outlets like Here! and on its series such as Dante's Cove (2005-2007). Such channels target niche audiences interested in 'quality' programming and, as a result, are able to offer showrunners and writers a comparatively broad range of creative control, leading to series that break social, cultural, and televisual taboos. And nowhere has this boundary-breaking potential of the ambivalent cable queer been more industrially conspicuous than in television horror.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me: the ambivalent queer of post-network television
- Creators
- Andrew J Owens - University of Iowa, Department of Cinematic Arts
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- New review of film and television studies, Vol.17(2), pp.131-147
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/17400309.2019.1602981
- ISSN
- 1740-0309
- eISSN
- 1740-7923
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/03/2019
- Academic Unit
- Cinematic Arts
- Record Identifier
- 9984002455702771
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