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We’ll have a gay ol’ time : transgressive sexuality and sexual taboo in adult television animation
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | De Beer, Adam |
| author2 | Botha, Martin P |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13164 We’ll have a gay ol’ time : transgressive sexuality and sexual taboo in adult television animation De Beer, Adam Botha, Martin P Film & Television Studies Includes bibliographical references. This thesis develops an understanding of animation as transgression based on the work of Christopher Jenks. The research focuses on adult animation, specifically North American primetime television series, as manifestations of a social need to violate and thereby interrogate aspects of contemporary hetero-normative conformity in terms of identity and representation. A thematic analysis of four animated television series, namely Family Guy, Queer Duck, Drawn Together, and Rick & Steve, focuses on the texts themselves and various metatexts that surround these series. The analysis focuses specifically on expressions and manifestations of gay sexuality and sexual taboos and how these are articulated within the animated diegesis. The findings reveal the mutuality between the plasticity of animation, which lends itself to shaping physical representations of reality, and the complex social processes of non-violent cathartic ideological expressions that redefine sociopolitical boundaries. The argument contextualizes the changing face of sexuality and the limits of sexual taboo in terms of current contestations and acceptability and the relationship to animation. Contemporary animation both represents this social performance of transgression and is itself a transgressive product disrupting accepted conventions. 2015-06-29T07:51:33Z 2015-06-29T07:51:33Z 2014 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13164 eng application/pdf Centre for Film and Media Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title | We’ll have a gay ol’ time : transgressive sexuality and sexual taboo in adult television animation |
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| topic | Film & Television Studies |
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