“Desperate Housewives” or a Drag Queen Show in American Suburbia
Abstract
The article presents the American series Desperate Housewives as seen through the prism of the gender and queer theory. The author looks at how gender of the main female characters of the series is constructed and presented, and asks whether a mainstream series can challenge dominant culture’s presentations of gender. The series Desperate Housewives then serves as a pretext for analysis, not only of how images of gender are constructed, but also on subversive nature of pop culture. The author refers in her work to theoretical concepts of Judith Butler and Susan Sontag.
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gender, queer, Judith Butler, Susan Sontag, American seriesReferences
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Magda Szcześniakkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
Absolwentka Kolegium MISH w Warszawie. Rozpoczyna studia doktoranckie w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej UW. Interesuje się marginalnymi gatunkami filmowymi, studiami gender i queer oraz studiami nad współczesną kulturą wizualną.
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