In Focus: Queer Approaches to Film, Television, and Digital Media: Queer Recalibration

Miller highlights how the iconic blue light of television emission expresses the haze of institutionalized gender and sexual normativity. As a camp critic obsessed with questions of legitimacy, and one whose varying forms of LGBT experience have consistently been inflected by queer affects of and dr...

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Published in:Cinema journal 2014-01, Vol.53 (2), p.140-144
Main Author: Miller, Quinn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American television
Film studies
Interpretations
LGBTQ studies
Postwar periods
Television history
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Summary:Miller highlights how the iconic blue light of television emission expresses the haze of institutionalized gender and sexual normativity. As a camp critic obsessed with questions of legitimacy, and one whose varying forms of LGBT experience have consistently been inflected by queer affects of and drives toward unintelligibility, he uses queer methods to reveal noise within a particular archive of industrially authored art. Through research into comedy of the early TV era, he has developed strategies for using obscure "meta" critique within television texts to access and redeploy anti-queerphobic interpretive contexts from the post-World War II US archive.
ISSN:0009-7101
1527-2087