Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803384
- Title
- Queering the Slayer-text: reading possibilities in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Author/Creator
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Beirne, Rebecca
- Description
- Of the dominant trends of lesbian representation in the last decade of the twentieth, and early twenty-first century, there are two that stretch in entirely different directions, but which are both pertinent to a discussion of the textual and subtextual lesbianisms in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There is the normalised gay (and I mean ‘gay’ rather than lesbian), and there is the ‘polymorphously perverse’, uncanny, and monstrous queer. I believe that the portrayal of lesbianism in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, takes both of these trends, and plaits them together to create what is truly a strange, sometimes problematic, sometimes positive, but ultimately unique portrait of lesbianism.
- Relation
- Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media Vol. 5
- Relation
- http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/category/browse-past-volumes/volume-5
- Date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Melbourne
- Keyword(s)
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lesbianism;
media representations;
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/803384
- Identifier
- ISSN:1447-4905
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