Niall Richardson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niall Richardson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niall |
| FAMILY NAME | Richardson |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Shame and the City: Subverting Neoliberal, New York Singleton Culture in Shame
Posits Shame as a nightmarish reworking of Manhattan as a sexual utopia, the glamorous setting for countless rom-coms and musicals. Argues that, via a combination of McQueen’s distinct visual aesthetics and a dystopian revision of genre conventions, the film refuses to represent sex “addiction” as a pathology, or the result of trauma, but instead codes it as the consequence of a neoliberal, pornographied society.
Shame and the City: Subverting Neoliberal, New York Singleton Culture in Shame
‘I’m not a Muslim. In fact, my name is Katie.’: Muslim-drag in the C4 documentary My Week as a Muslim
In the UK Channel 4 documentary, My Week As a Muslim, an English, white woman named Katie donned a hijab, a prosthetic nose and copious amounts of brown foundation to disguise herself as a Pakistani Muslim so that she could spend a week experiencing Muslim culture and appreciate her position of white privilege. Although My Week as a Muslim was attempting to challenge many of the dominant stereotypes of Muslim women found in much of Western media,…
Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema
What I was told about lesbians really did shock me. It can’t be true, can it? You’re all vegetarians?’: Greywashing Gay Shame in Pride
Celebrated by film journalists as the feel-good film of 2014 (Kermode, 2014; Osboldstone, 2014), Pride depicted the unlikely alliance between a group of London based gay activists and the miners from a small, Welsh village during the miners’ strike of 1984. However, the film can also be read as a nostalgic representation of a specific agenda of British Gay Liberation politics in the early 1980s – a period in which one of the main trajectories of …
Whether you are gay or straight, I don't like to see effeminate dancing: Effeminophobia in Performance-Level Ballroom Dance
This article discusses recent responses to performances of same-sex male ballroom dancing in order to consider the subtle difference which can exist between homophobia and effeminophobia. Given that the world of performance-level ballroom dancing is a gay-friendly environment, in which many participants are openly gay identified, this article will argue that a discourse of effeminophobia, rather than homophobia, underpins the world of performance…
Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture
In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, argui…
Studying Sexualities
"An introduction to the critical study of sexuality in a media, film, and cultural studies context."--Page 2
Effeminophobia, Misogyny and Queer Friendship: The Cultural Themes of Channel 4's Playing It Straight
This article considers the theme of the Channel 4 show 'Playing It Straight' (2005), a variation on the 'dating show' genre in which a female contestant must select the man of her dreams from 10 suitors. However, the twist in the show's format is that not all of the men are heterosexually identified. The article contends that the show's narrative is not homophobic but effeminophobic. Second, the article analyses how the show positions all the mal…
Flex-rated! Female bodybuilding: Feminist Resistance or Erotic Spectacle
This paper aims to develop the already extensive writing on female bodybuilding by speculating on the ‘possible’ eroticism of the hyper-muscular female body. Most of the existing academic literature on female bodybuilding has either praised the built female body as feminist resistance to traditional ideas of femininity or else dismissed it as a strange form of erotic spectacle. Indeed, one of the fastest growing forms of erotic representation is …
As Kamp As Bree: The Politics of Camp Reconsidered By Desperate Housewives
Despite camp's seemingly exclusive affiliation with gay men and misogynist tendencies, camp offers feminists a model for critiques of gender and sex roles. Camp has an affinity with feminist discus
Queering a Gay Cliché: The Rough Trade/Sugar Daddy Relationship in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio
The queer activity of extreme male bodybuilding: Gender dissidence, auto‐eroticism and hysteria
The paper seeks to expose the incoherencies within the activity of bodybuilding, suggesting that both the bodybuilder's body and the activity of bodybuilding can be regarded as 'queer'. However, the paper will not use 'queer' as a trendy synonym for 'gay' but will focus on queer's potential to describe mismatches of sex, gender and sexuality. 'Queer' draws its subversive potential from being in opposition with 'normal' rather than 'heterosexual'.…
The Gospel According to Spider‐Man
Queer Masculinity: The Representation of John Paul Pitoc's Body in Trick
The Queer Performance of Tilda Swinton in Derek Jarman's Edward II: Gay Male Misogyny Reconsidered
Gay male misogyny has become a cliché. From the novels of Alan Hollinghurst and David Leavitt to recent gay themed films such as Trick and Broadway Damage, woman's abject presence is used as a defining other for the gay male bodies. Myopic critics have cited Jarman's films in the same league. This article will argue that Jarman does not represent his favourite actor - Tilda Swinton - as an abject sponge. Instead, Swinton's performance evokes an i…
Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making
Effeminophobia, Misogyny and Queer Friendship: The Cultural Themes of Channel 4's Playing It Straight
This article considers the theme of the Channel 4 show 'Playing It Straight' (2005), a variation on the 'dating show' genre in which a female contestant must select the man of her dreams from 10 suitors. However, the twist in the show's format is that not all of the men are heterosexually identified. The article contends that the show's narrative is not homophobic but effeminophobic. Second, the article analyses how the show positions all the mal…
Whether you are gay or straight, I don't like to see effeminate dancing: Effeminophobia in Performance-Level Ballroom Dance
This article discusses recent responses to performances of same-sex male ballroom dancing in order to consider the subtle difference which can exist between homophobia and effeminophobia. Given that the world of performance-level ballroom dancing is a gay-friendly environment, in which many participants are openly gay identified, this article will argue that a discourse of effeminophobia, rather than homophobia, underpins the world of performance…
Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture
In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, argui…
Flex-rated! Female bodybuilding: Feminist Resistance or Erotic Spectacle
This paper aims to develop the already extensive writing on female bodybuilding by speculating on the ‘possible’ eroticism of the hyper-muscular female body. Most of the existing academic literature on female bodybuilding has either praised the built female body as feminist resistance to traditional ideas of femininity or else dismissed it as a strange form of erotic spectacle. Indeed, one of the fastest growing forms of erotic representation is …
The queer activity of extreme male bodybuilding: Gender dissidence, auto‐eroticism and hysteria
The paper seeks to expose the incoherencies within the activity of bodybuilding, suggesting that both the bodybuilder's body and the activity of bodybuilding can be regarded as 'queer'. However, the paper will not use 'queer' as a trendy synonym for 'gay' but will focus on queer's potential to describe mismatches of sex, gender and sexuality. 'Queer' draws its subversive potential from being in opposition with 'normal' rather than 'heterosexual'.…
As Kamp As Bree: The Politics of Camp Reconsidered By Desperate Housewives
Despite camp's seemingly exclusive affiliation with gay men and misogynist tendencies, camp offers feminists a model for critiques of gender and sex roles. Camp has an affinity with feminist discus
The Queer Performance of Tilda Swinton in Derek Jarman's Edward II: Gay Male Misogyny Reconsidered
Gay male misogyny has become a cliché. From the novels of Alan Hollinghurst and David Leavitt to recent gay themed films such as Trick and Broadway Damage, woman's abject presence is used as a defining other for the gay male bodies. Myopic critics have cited Jarman's films in the same league. This article will argue that Jarman does not represent his favourite actor - Tilda Swinton - as an abject sponge. Instead, Swinton's performance evokes an i…
Queering a Gay Cliché: The Rough Trade/Sugar Daddy Relationship in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio
The Gospel According to Spider‐Man
Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making
Queer Masculinity: The Representation of John Paul Pitoc's Body in Trick
The Queer Performance of Tilda Swinton in Derek Jarman's Edward II: Gay Male Misogyny Reconsidered
Gay male misogyny has become a cliché. From the novels of Alan Hollinghurst and David Leavitt to recent gay themed films such as Trick and Broadway Damage, woman's abject presence is used as a defining other for the gay male bodies. Myopic critics have cited Jarman's films in the same league. This article will argue that Jarman does not represent his favourite actor - Tilda Swinton - as an abject sponge. Instead, Swinton's performance evokes an i…
The queer activity of extreme male bodybuilding: Gender dissidence, auto‐eroticism and hysteria
The paper seeks to expose the incoherencies within the activity of bodybuilding, suggesting that both the bodybuilder's body and the activity of bodybuilding can be regarded as 'queer'. However, the paper will not use 'queer' as a trendy synonym for 'gay' but will focus on queer's potential to describe mismatches of sex, gender and sexuality. 'Queer' draws its subversive potential from being in opposition with 'normal' rather than 'heterosexual'.…
The Gospel According to Spider‐Man
Queering a Gay Cliché: The Rough Trade/Sugar Daddy Relationship in Derek Jarman's Caravaggio
As Kamp As Bree: The Politics of Camp Reconsidered By Desperate Housewives
Despite camp's seemingly exclusive affiliation with gay men and misogynist tendencies, camp offers feminists a model for critiques of gender and sex roles. Camp has an affinity with feminist discus
Flex-rated! Female bodybuilding: Feminist Resistance or Erotic Spectacle
This paper aims to develop the already extensive writing on female bodybuilding by speculating on the ‘possible’ eroticism of the hyper-muscular female body. Most of the existing academic literature on female bodybuilding has either praised the built female body as feminist resistance to traditional ideas of femininity or else dismissed it as a strange form of erotic spectacle. Indeed, one of the fastest growing forms of erotic representation is …
Effeminophobia, Misogyny and Queer Friendship: The Cultural Themes of Channel 4's Playing It Straight
This article considers the theme of the Channel 4 show 'Playing It Straight' (2005), a variation on the 'dating show' genre in which a female contestant must select the man of her dreams from 10 suitors. However, the twist in the show's format is that not all of the men are heterosexually identified. The article contends that the show's narrative is not homophobic but effeminophobic. Second, the article analyses how the show positions all the mal…
Studying Sexualities
"An introduction to the critical study of sexuality in a media, film, and cultural studies context."--Page 2
Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture
In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, argui…
Whether you are gay or straight, I don't like to see effeminate dancing: Effeminophobia in Performance-Level Ballroom Dance
This article discusses recent responses to performances of same-sex male ballroom dancing in order to consider the subtle difference which can exist between homophobia and effeminophobia. Given that the world of performance-level ballroom dancing is a gay-friendly environment, in which many participants are openly gay identified, this article will argue that a discourse of effeminophobia, rather than homophobia, underpins the world of performance…
Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema
What I was told about lesbians really did shock me. It can’t be true, can it? You’re all vegetarians?’: Greywashing Gay Shame in Pride
Celebrated by film journalists as the feel-good film of 2014 (Kermode, 2014; Osboldstone, 2014), Pride depicted the unlikely alliance between a group of London based gay activists and the miners from a small, Welsh village during the miners’ strike of 1984. However, the film can also be read as a nostalgic representation of a specific agenda of British Gay Liberation politics in the early 1980s – a period in which one of the main trajectories of …
‘I’m not a Muslim. In fact, my name is Katie.’: Muslim-drag in the C4 documentary My Week as a Muslim
In the UK Channel 4 documentary, My Week As a Muslim, an English, white woman named Katie donned a hijab, a prosthetic nose and copious amounts of brown foundation to disguise herself as a Pakistani Muslim so that she could spend a week experiencing Muslim culture and appreciate her position of white privilege. Although My Week as a Muslim was attempting to challenge many of the dominant stereotypes of Muslim women found in much of Western media,…
Shame and the City: Subverting Neoliberal, New York Singleton Culture in Shame
Posits Shame as a nightmarish reworking of Manhattan as a sexual utopia, the glamorous setting for countless rom-coms and musicals. Argues that, via a combination of McQueen’s distinct visual aesthetics and a dystopian revision of genre conventions, the film refuses to represent sex “addiction” as a pathology, or the result of trauma, but instead codes it as the consequence of a neoliberal, pornographied society.
Shame and the City: Subverting Neoliberal, New York Singleton Culture in Shame
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Art (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Queer (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Political science (5 works)