1st Edition

Mediating Sexual Citizenship Neoliberal Subjectivities in Television Culture

188 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender. Drawing on examples from a range of television genres (quality drama, reality television, talk shows, sitcoms) and... Read more

Introduction

1. Mediating cosmopolitan lesbian lifestyles

2. Consuming gay masculinities

3. Producing dysfunctional family

4. Gender and sexuality in remediations of sport

5. Transgender subjectivities and projects of self

Conclusion

Biography

Anita Brady is a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Kellie Burns is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Cristyn Davies is a Research Associate at the University of Sydney, Australia.