Barnhurst, KG (2007) Visibility as Paradox: Representation and Simultaneous Contrast. In: Barnhurst, KG, (ed.) Media/Queered: Visibility and Its Discontents. Media Q . Peter Lang Publishing , 1 - 20 (20). ISBN 0820495328
Abstract
Since the 1960s, queers have become increasingly visible in the media. Queer identities in community life and politics may rely in the twenty-first century on the prevailing media landscape. And yet visibility, like other semantic and semiotic forms, contains its own contradictions. The paradoxes of visibility are many: spurring tolerance through harmful stereotyping, diminishing isolation at the cost of activism, trading assimilation for equality, and converting radicalism into a market niche. Signaling the existence of queer persons may aim for inclusion in public discourse, but, through simultaneous contrast, the assertion contains its inevitable opposition:Queers are different and cannot go unremarked.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2007, Peter Lang Publishing. Reproduced with permission from the publisher. |
Keywords: | Communication Studies; Gender Studies; Media Studies; Queer Studies |
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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) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2013 11:14 |
Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2013 10:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Peter Lang Publishing |
Series Name: | Media Q |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:76467 |