Krstić, A, Parry, K orcid.org/0000-0003-3654-6489 and Aiello, G orcid.org/0000-0002-9636-1016 (2020) Visualising the politics of appearance in times of democratisation: An analysis of the 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade television coverage. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 23 (2). pp. 165-183. ISSN 1367-5494
Abstract
The 2010 Belgrade Pride Parade represents a critical moment in the story of Serbia’s democratisation process and highlights the threat that right-wing extremism poses to democratic rights and personal freedoms. Through a focus on patterns of visibility and visuality in the coverage of different protagonists in the streets of Belgrade, we explore the ways in which distinct communities perform their affinities, their right to be seen in public spaces, and rejection of ‘the other’. We conduct a visual framing analysis across four news programmes (RTS, Prva TV, TV B92 and Pink TV), emphasising the stylistic-semiotic choices which work to construct the contested spaces of the city. In shifting attention to how the news images work to create the spaces of political ‘appearance’ and the potentials for political agency through mediated visibility, the article explores the uneasy ambivalence of the democratisation process for authorities and the resulting marginalisation of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in news coverage.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Authors 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in European Journal of Cultural Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Pride Parade, LGBT, democratisation, Serbia, Belgrade, Europeanisation, visual framing, visibility, visuality, television news |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 613370 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2017 10:28 |
Last Modified: | 05 Aug 2020 09:33 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1367549417743042 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:121396 |