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| العنوان: |
LGBT+ mainstreaming on strictly come dancing: Queering the norms of ballroom dancing. |
| المؤلفون: |
Wong, Yen Nee |
| المصدر: |
Media, Culture & Society; May2024, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p816-833, 18p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
DANCE, QUEER theory, BALLROOM dancing, HOMOSEXUALITY, DANCE companies, REALITY television programs |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED Kingdom |
| مستخلص: |
This paper proposes that LGBT+ mainstreaming on reality television programme Strictly Come Dancing creates space for audience demand for radical, authentic representations of same-sex desire and intimacy, both of which challenges normative representations of ballroom dancing. Integrating concepts of normativity and authenticity explored in existing scholarship, I argue against the encountering through a defensive stance, of reality TV's normalization of queer narratives to promote authentic, inclusive representation. Focusing on dance-themed British reality TV programme for family entertainment, I draw on a queer reading of 285 newspaper articles on Strictly Come Dancing's same-sex dance partnerships and 35 interviews with LGBT+ equality dancers in the United Kingdom, to conclude that active engagement with mechanisms of normalization can open up spaces for a reclamation of queer representation in its authenticity. The article makes a contribution to media and cultural studies and queer television scholarship through a troubling of anti-normativity, proposing a working with normativity to achieve queer inclusivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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