Crossing the Borders of Queer TV: Depictions of migration and (im)mobility in contemporary LGBTQ television

Horvat, Anamarija

doi:10.1177/1749602020934091

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“…For example, dropdown menus reified binary notions about "butch" versus "femme," and erotic imagery favored White models adhering to Western aesthetic trends. Anamarija Horvat has argued that depictions of LGBTQ populations in U.S. and U.K. television continued to focus on White, middle-class characters until recently (Horvat, 2020). Yet, in the meantime, diverse users of queer online media adapted the platforms to new local and cultural contexts, such as among the Beirut-based users of PlanetRomeo (Gagné, 2012), the Turkish-speaking users of CamQueer (Atay, 2015), or the queer users who forged online subcultures in Hong Kong (Nip, 2004), Taiwan (Lin, 2006), and Tunis (Collins, 2012).…”

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Queer Migration and Digital Media

Shield¹

2021

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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Migration—whether international or internal, forced or voluntary—intertwines with digital media, especially for sexual minorities and trans people who seek out platforms catering to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) people. Online networks foster transnational flows of ideas and information, which can enable international travel. The ways that queer people interact on digital media in the 21st century have emerged not only from decades of online subcultures—such as 1990s chatrooms and profile sites—but also from predigital media cultures, such as printed personal ads in gay and lesbian journals. The internet accelerated the growth of media platforms and queer international networks, both of which continued to develop with the advent of mobile phone apps and the proliferation of social media. Online media—from blogs to hashtags to “hook-up” apps—can relate to all aspects of the migration process. Before, during, and after a move, queer migrants access online media for information about LGBTQ laws and norms or for help with the logistics of migration. When in a new country, queer migrants use online media to try to connect with locals. During these interactions, migrants might encounter forms of xenophobia, racism, and exclusion. In spite or because of these experiences, queer migrants utilize digital media to build new networks, such as queer diasporic communities aimed at social or political activities.

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Queer Migration and Digital Media

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2021

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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“…Y&Y presents a convincing vision of many of the tendencies that currently shape modern societies (Horvat, 2020;Sorolla-Romero, 2021), like the rise of populism, illegal immigration, the increase in surveillance (Brown & Toh, 2021), the economic crisis, the deterioration of the environment, and the loss of jobs in professions that are being automated due to Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Kelly, 2020). It also displays the seduction of images that overfills the hungry glance of the spectator for the cruelty represented in the apocalyptic events shown in each episode of the series, which, "built on the foundations of a cinema of mainstream cruelty, seems to be the expression of pornography of horror and violence" (Fernández-Rodríguez & Romero-Rodríguez, 2021, p. 215).…”

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A Multilevel Analysis of the representations of Technology in «Years and Years»

Flores

Cornelio-Marí

2023

Communication & Society

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The analysis of science fiction narratives is valuable to explore possible futures. This article analyzes the representation of technology in the television series Years and Years (2019), a co-production by the BBC and HBO created by Russell T Davies. This audiovisual narrative depicts key problems of the present in a representation of the near future, enabling the identification of new socio-technological paradigms. We applied the method of Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), a prospective analytical tool used both for the study of diverse current phenomena and for the design of possible futures, which includes the levels of the litany, systemic causes, discourse/world vision, and myth/metaphor. The analysis showed that Years and Years offers a vision of a world in chaos, based on a global capitalist and technological project that threatens fundamental rights, and the existence of the human species. In the series, technologies are imbibed in all the fundamental systems of Western societies, pushing common people into obsolescence. Three narratives uphold the myth of the dominion of science and technology: the technological transcendence of human beings, the irrelevance of humans before technology, and the ubiquitous panopticon of digitized power. Through its bleak version of the future Y&Y puts into focus aspects of technological development that make us reflect critically and urgently about the present.

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“…Here, we focus on the British series as subject of study. It has so far been virtually ignored in academic articles and books, except for an analysis of its contribution in Queer TV (Horvat, 2020). However, recent monographs demonstrate the academic interest in the view of the refugee crisis and the concept of Europe in film and on television (Marcos & Rubio, 2018;Echart & Russo, 2020;Lacalle, 2008), as well as economic and identity factors (Marzal et al, 2018;Parejo & Sánchez-Escalonilla, 2016).…”

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Iconographies of the present. Political populism, economic instability and migratory crisis in «Years and Years» (BBC and HBO, 2019)

Romero

2021

Communication & Society

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In its six episodes, the British series Years and Years (2019) calls on images that resonate in the collective imagination of the contemporary media, although some of them have their roots in visual motifs with a strong tradition in Western visual culture. In this article, we attempt to identify these images, representing the political conflicts, social tensions, ecological disasters, and economic uncertainties of the end of the 2010s and beginning of the 2020s, and analyse their transfer from the media to television fiction. Among the references and other motifs analysed are images from the realm of contemporary photography appearing in the press and, for example, at the prestigious World Press Photo event. But an earlier pictorial and cinematographic tradition shows the survival of these visual motifs in the images from Years and Years, interweaving the public sphere with television fiction. Methodologically, we draw on contemporary image theory, including the legacy of Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin, and textual analysis rooted in semiotics. The visual motifs analysed crystallise around the social unease and humanitarian disasters unleashed by economic and migratory crises, the banalisation of politics in the media, the threat of authoritarian populism and the stylisation of images of war. They include the allegory of freedom and representations of popular revolt and hard times.

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Crossing the Borders of Queer TV: Depictions of migration and (im)mobility in contemporary LGBTQ television

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Queer Migration and Digital Media

Queer Migration and Digital Media

A Multilevel Analysis of the representations of Technology in «Years and Years»

Iconographies of the present. Political populism, economic instability and migratory crisis in «Years and Years» (BBC and HBO, 2019)

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