1991
DOI: 10.1080/00335639109383952
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Intersecting and competing discourses in Harvey Fierstein's Tidy endings

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“…While The L Word may be considered a “feminine” text because the content and characters focus on lesbian, bisexual women, and female transgender individuals, the viewing audience was not strictly female or LGBTQ. Previous ethnographies about “queer” television or television with “queer” themes focused solely on meanings to the “queer” audience (Cohen, 1991; Malagreca, 2007) and those studies with feminine themes focused only on a female audience (Brown, 2004; Radway, 1987). This study builds upon critical feminist and queer ethnographies by exploring the negotiation of queer identities and queer media representation to an integrated socio-cultural audience.…”
Section: Fictional Television: Entertaining Negotiationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While The L Word may be considered a “feminine” text because the content and characters focus on lesbian, bisexual women, and female transgender individuals, the viewing audience was not strictly female or LGBTQ. Previous ethnographies about “queer” television or television with “queer” themes focused solely on meanings to the “queer” audience (Cohen, 1991; Malagreca, 2007) and those studies with feminine themes focused only on a female audience (Brown, 2004; Radway, 1987). This study builds upon critical feminist and queer ethnographies by exploring the negotiation of queer identities and queer media representation to an integrated socio-cultural audience.…”
Section: Fictional Television: Entertaining Negotiationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These are just a few of the important theoretical questions that concern all popular culture critics, and such questions will receive richer and more persuasive answers if critics are assisted by audience research. Of course, audience research should not be pursued to the exclusion of textual analysis-arguably the most interesting and persuasive studies combine both (see, e.g., Rarick, Duncan, Lee, & Porter, 1977;Cohen, 1991;Press, 1991). Indeed, Sonia Livingstone argues that both may be seen as "complementary and mutually challenging, each provoking the other to face neglected problems" (1991, p. 288).…”
Section: Theoretical and Argumentative Rationale For Audience Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such nce" have been fallaciously identified as liberating marginal groups, who may raise a multiplicity of voices in opposition to "the" voice affirming dominant culture. Indeed, the problems with considering resistant or oppositional readings of media texts as paths to or instances of political expression are becoming commonplace in the literature (Budd, Entman, & Steinman, 1990;Cohen, 1991a;Condit, 1989;Lembo & Tucker, 1990;Streeter, 1989;Wren-Lewis, 1983). Here, I will only summarize how the preoccupation with "resistant" and "oppositional" voices fails to meet the good intentions of those who embrace the concepts.…”
Section: Power and Meaningmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Grossberg (1986) points out, people "may win Only limited empowerment will ensue when minority voices are cast as something in the struggle against sexism and lose something in the struggle against economic exploitation; they may both gain and lose something economically; and while they lose ideological ground, they may win a bit of emotional strength" (p. 4). Cohen (1991a) illustrates the give and take of power in her study of how gay male television spectators actively resist oppressive heterosexual discourse, while simultaneously assuming a patriarchal discourse that is inimical to gay liberation.…”
Section: Power and Meaningmentioning
confidence: 99%