I don't take orders from a lad wearing make-up

Zombie as queer metaphor in Dominic Mitchell’s In the Flesh

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5682199
AutoresAllison Moore (0000-0002-5506-4584, Edge Hill University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen11
Número3
Páginas299-314
Fecha de publicación2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1749602016662549
OpenAlexW2512818238
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas20

This article examines Dominic Mitchell's BBC Three's supernatural drama series, In the Flesh (2013), as a metaphor for contemporary lesbian and gay politics, which in recent years has followed a reformist agenda on the basis that lesbians and gay men are, what Andrew Sullivan (1996) has called, 'virtually normal'. However, it has been suggested by some queer theorists that being seen as virtually normal is not unproblematic, as it is predicated on a politics of toleration. Read as a metaphor for contemporary lesbian and gay politics, In the Flesh presents a warning of the uncritical acceptance of discourses of sexual progress

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