Jewish, Queer-ish, Trans, and Completely Revolutionary: Jill Soloway's Transparent and the New Television

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Villarejo
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
American Television ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Location Shooting ◽  
Television Representation

To judge by the critical enthusiasm with which the second season of Amazon Prime's Transparent (2014–) series has been embraced, Jill Soloway not only has a big trans-affirmative hit on her hands but has succeeded in stimulating a lively conversation about queerness, trans politics, and television representation within the broader society. If the first season of that imaginative lifeworld stressed Maura's transgender emergence through the manipulation of the gaze, the second season expands into queer territory in several ways. Real life, or life seemingly offscreen, has always bled into American television, whether through location shooting, topical references, stars' relationships, or just the indexical details of sound and image. Like cinema, that is, television has always been a documentary of what it records, even in the most minimal sense. What's new is that overtly queer people now make television, and they are seeking to blend details of their queer lifeworlds with the sounds and images of television and the cultural industries elaborated here. Understanding the nature of this blend helps to more accurately pinpoint the conceptions of religion, gender, and sexuality that Soloway brings to Transparent and wants to explore through its textures and detail.

scholarly journals Navigating Gender and Patriotism in Captain America Trilogy Movie

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cut Novita Srikandi
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Sexual Discourse ◽  
Captain America ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Result Show ◽  
Standard Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Society

This articles revisits Michel Foucault and Judith Butler’s work on the gender and sexuality by examining contemporary cultural spectacles of heterosexual men, exemplified in the movie Captain America Trilogy. We will re-evaluate the queerness based on Foucault’s Sexual Discourse by thinking about the intersections between queer heroes and queer soldier. Result Show that struggle queer individuals endure with heteronormative standard culture forces them to change standard culture things and forms to create them applicable. Captain America shut relationship with Bucky provides for a queer reading and therefore the history of Captain America among the relative queer freedom caused by socio-historic conditions of war II find this queer reading during a larger queer history. And by claiming Steve Rogersand Bucky as their own queer people create space to express their identities and reaffirm the place of heroic queer people in Americanhistory which, as the descendants of that patriotic past, merits them a place within that history and within modern Americansociety.Keywords: Gender in American Society, queer heroes, gender identities

The Semantics of the Gaze: Fazio’s Mistress in Fazio Degli Uberti’s and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Representations

2021 ◽  
Vol 3/2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Wronko-Szybko
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
The Gaze

The intention of this paper is to discuss the act of (not) looking with respect to the fourteenth-century Italian poem “His Portrait of His Lady, Angiola of Verona” written by Fazio Degli Uberti, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s painting Fazio’s Mistress (Aurelia). The works chosen for this analysis seem to represent social conventions and expectations related to gender and sexuality. Both in the case of the painting and the poem, the gaze is a medium of becoming a “surveyor” and “surveyed”, a means of typecasting, but also a reservoir of changing meanings. In the following discussion, the author approaches Uberti’s and Rossetti’s works in attempt to see how (and if) they renounce traditional views on domination and submission.

Queer of colour hauntings in London’s arts scene: performing disidentification and decolonising the gaze. A case study of the Cocoa Butter Club

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-463
Author(s):  
Laurie Mompelat
Keyword(s):  
Cocoa Butter ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
White Gaze

This article analyses the representational stakes of queer of colour performance, by taking the case study of the Cocoa Butter Club: queer of colour cabaret night in London. Within a British landscape that has silenced queer subjectivities of colour at the intersection of race, gender and sexuality, I explore the potential of QPOC performance to redress historical erasure. To enact their presence, I argue that the Cocoa Butter Club’s performers showcase their collective disidentification from the scripts pre-assigned to their bodies within the European imagination. By doing so, they disrupt hegemonic representations of queerness and racialised otherness, making room for a multitude of queer of colour becomings kept otherwise invisible from public view. Such disidentifications unleash ‘ghosts’ into the public space, spectres of elided subjectivities and unresolved coloniality within a city that likes to think of itself as a post-racial LGBT haven. Drawing on ethnographic material and interviews with performers, I analyse what happens when such queer of colour hauntings reach the audience’s gaze. I consider their unsettling effects in relation to the white gaze, as well as their empowering function in relation to desiring QPOC subjects, seeking reflections of themselves in spectatorship.

Killing Two Birds with One Deceit

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Dynel
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Television Series ◽  
American Television ◽  
Speaker Meaning ◽  
Complex Mechanisms

This paper explores the workings of deception performed in multi-party interactions, a topic hitherto hardly ever examined by deception philosophers. Deception is here discussed in the light of a neo-Goffmanian classification of (un)ratified hearers and a neo-Gricean version of speaker meaning, anchored in non-reflexive intentionality and accountability, which is shown to operate beyond the speaker-hearer dyad. An utterance, it is argued, may carry different meanings, judged according to their (lack of) intentionality and (non)deceptiveness, towards the individuals performing different hearer roles. The complex mechanisms of deception with regard to different hearers are illustrated with examples culled from the American television series “House.” Deception in fictional interactions is illustrative of real-life manifestations of deception, yet it brings into focus also those rare ones, which are in the centre of philosophical attention.

Pop Culture/Visual Culture

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Wanzo
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Feminist Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

Feminist scholars in fields as varied as art history, film studies, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, communications, and performance studies have made important contributions to discussions about representations of gender and sexuality in everyday life. This chapter examines themes and issues in the feminist study of popular culture and visual culture, including: the history of sexist representation; the gendered nature of the “gaze” and the instability of that concept; the question of whether or not representation has effects; the anxieties surrounding consumption of “women’s texts”; and the challenges in deciphering women’s agency and authorship given constraints produced by institutions and ideology.

Drama at Dunder Mifflin: Workplace Bullying Discourses on The Office

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin M. Sumner ◽  
Jennifer A. Scarduzio ◽  
Jena R. Daggett
Keyword(s):  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Workplace Bully ◽  
American Television ◽  
Social Discourses ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Bullying Behavior ◽  
Bullying Behaviors

This study examines the portrayal and affective framing of workplace bullying behaviors on the popular American television show The Office. Quantitative and qualitative content analyses were conducted on 54 episodes spanning the show’s nine seasons. Results revealed 331 instances of workplace bullying, for an average of 6.13 bullying behaviors per episode. Workplace bullying behavior on The Office was grouped into five categories: sexual jokes, public humiliation, practical jokes, belittlement, and misuse of authority. In general, instances of workplace bully were scripted as humorous and lacking significant consequences, which could further contribute to social discourses that perpetuate the problem of bullying in real-life workplaces.

scholarly journals Gaze Coordination of Groups in Dynamic Events – A Tool to Facilitate Analyses of Simultaneous Gazes Within a Team

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frowin Fasold ◽  
André Nicklas ◽  
Florian Seifriz ◽  
Karsten Schul ◽  
Benjamin Noël ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Gaze Behavior ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Dynamic Events

The performance and the success of a group working as a team on a common goal depends on the individuals’ skills and the collective coordination of their abilities. On a perceptual level, individual gaze behavior is reasonably well investigated. However, the coordination of visual skills in a team has been investigated only in laboratory studies and the practical examination and knowledge transfer to field studies or the applicability in real-life situations have so far been neglected. This is mainly due to the fact that a methodological approach along with a suitable evaluation procedure to analyze the gaze coordination within a team in highly dynamic events outside the lab, is still missing. Thus, this study was conducted to develop a tool to investigate the coordinated gaze behavior within a team of three human beings acting with a common goal in a dynamic real-world scenario. This team was a (three-person) basketball referee team adjudicating a game. Using mobile eye-tracking devices and an indigenously designed software tool for the simultaneous analysis of the gaze data of three participants, allowed, for the first time, the simultaneous investigation of the coordinated gaze behavior of three people in a highly dynamic setting. Overall, the study provides a new and innovative method to investigate the coordinated gaze behavior of a three-person team in specific tasks. This method is also applicable to investigate research questions about teams in dynamic real-world scenarios and get a deeper look at interactions and behavior patterns of human beings in group settings (for example, in team sports).

An observational model for vampire slaying in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Scientifically guiding the next generation of slayers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Freedland
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Muscle ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Laser Pointer ◽  
Buffy The Vampire Slayer ◽  
American Television ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into

The American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (“BtVS”, 1997-2003) has been the subject of extensive literary analysis, largely due to its use of demon-slaying as a metaphor for real-life conflict. Interestingly, exploring these themes throughout 100+ hours of television has also produced a large set of observational data that gives insight into the nature of vampires within the in-show universe (“Buffyverse”). Here, we build a framework for vampire slaying that suggests a dependency on the blockage of calcium channels in smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle. We then utilize this model to predict a new means for slaying vampires: a laser pointer with a wavelength under 330nm. We hope that our investigation provides new perspectives for the continued analysis of BtVS, encourages quantitative analyses for other literary works, and helps decrease the death-toll of vampire-related deaths in future BtVS works.

Enaction Through Co-speech Gesture: The Rhetorical Handing of the Mental Timeline

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-431
Author(s):  
Daniel Alcaraz Carrión ◽  
Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas ◽  
Javier Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Dynamic System ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Perceptual Information ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Gaze Fixation ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
American Television

AbstractThis chapter will explore the embodied, enacted and embedded nature of co-speech gestures in the meaning-making process of time conceptualization. We will review three different contextualized communicative exchanges extracted from American Television interviews. First, we will offer a step-by-step form description of the different gesture realizations performed by the speakers as well as a brief description of the gaze fixation patterns. After that, we will offer a functional analysis which will interpret the gesturing patters in terms of their communicative goals on their respective communicative contexts as well as the complex interplay between verbal and non-verbal communication. The resulting interaction between speech, gesture and other bodily movements give rise to a dynamic system that allows for the construction of highly complex meanings: time co-speech gestures play a crucial role in the simulation of virtual anchors for complex mental networks that integrate conceptual and perceptual information.

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