GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Queer Eye, Laura Mulvey, Heteronormativity
4 Jun 2018
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Lecture 13:
Representation in media
Representation project- ou a’t e hat ou a’t see
Misrepresentation movie
Just representation on screen of a character can help people imagine different roles
Clip-
Lena Waithe at the Met ball
Talking about representation
The clip for representation
Lena has become a figure head for LGBTQ in the media
Episode she’s talkig aout-
Masters of none- the show
Episode that she wrote- a trailer for the episode itself
Powerful episode because even though we see media tropes of oig out stories ad it’s like
the person is not accepted- in a way that went into family dynamics
Representation and current media landscape
Some controversial characters like Caitlyn Jenner- rigs represetatio ut is’t represetig
many women because of views, class, etc.
Issues of representation- ho holds the aera, ho’s the diretor, et.
Voguing- video that rips off the culture
From drag ball culture
Timeline of change and representations
General problems
Often times lesbian and gay characters get killed off very fast
Before- media made the gay characters being gay their story
But now their gay but have their own story
Plot is’t just aout their seual orietatio aore
Problem of white washing too
The Ellen Show-
On her first sho, after she said she as ga she lost her sho ad ould’t fid ork for ears
Really intense homophobia
Ellen coming out on mainstream media
That was in 1997
Led the way for Will and Grace to come out in 1998
Two title characters and once a couple and Will comes out as Gay but still close friends
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