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Title:
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Looking for Homonormativity: Critique of neoliberal politics and whiteness within the HBO TV Show Looking
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Creator:
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Collins, Jared C.
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Subject:
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Thesis (M.F.A.) -- Film and Television
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Subject:
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Savannah College of Art and Design -- Department of Film and Television
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Rights:
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Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Abstract:
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This thesis paper deconstructs Homonormative Cinema. Homonormative Cinema is a
term that I define as: A cinema that rejects queer politics and roots itself in
homonormativity as defined by Lisa Duggan. There are specific aspects to
Homonormative Cinema such as the rejection and marking of the queer identity as
“other”, using whiteness to unify central characters as a way to negate any physical
otherness, and lastly, separating identity politics from the economy by allying itself with
neoliberal politics. Therefore, Homonormative Cinema links personal freedom with
consumerism and domesticity. In this paper I deconstruct HBO’s television show
Looking. I specifically use a TV show for my analysis because 1. Looking incorporates all
the aspects of Homonormative Cinema. 2. Since the creation of Will & Grace, television
has often been used as a vehicle to normalize gay characters. 3. The television format of
repeated viewership reaches a wider audience that tunes in on a weekly basis.
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Abstract:
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Keywords: homonormativity, looking, queer, neoliberalism, whiteness
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Publisher:
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Savannah, Georgia : Savannah College of Art and Design
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Date:
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2015-04
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Format:
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PDF (40 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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