CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Novakovic, Ravijojla |
|---|---|
| Title | The representation of the lesbian body in music videos |
| Summary | This paper offers an overview of representations of the lesbian body in music videos. I analysed video materials of the 1980s popular culture onwards and grouped them according to their dominant characteristic features in two main categories: heterosexist videos and queer videos. My main concern was to explore whether the representation was challenging the gender binary matrix, and if so, I identified the junctures of symbol clusters revolving around the term lesbian to see if they would fit Lisa Henderson’s positive image model or not. Grouping the videos in two major categories helped me to understand their relationship. While the heterosexist group displays attempts to appropriate the term lesbian, the queer group displays a certain resistance to such categorization, decomposing the lesbian as something fixed and easily accessible within a heterosexist discourse. |
| Supervisor | Barat, Erzsebet |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/novakovic_ravijojla.pdf |
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