Jillian Sandell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3924695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jillian Sandell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Sandell |
| SIGNATURE | SANDELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What can television do? Cultural representations of border violence in FX’s The Bridge
FX’s The Bridge uses the two decades of violence against women in Juárez, Mexico, as a backdrop for a crime procedural drama about a serial killer. While there is a long history of cultural activism about the murders, The Bridge is the first mainstream television show to address the violence. I argue that while the show repeatedly centers police and journalists rather than community organizers, and thus limits the possibility of representing the …
Hedwig revisited
The mainstream success of the 2014 Broadway revival of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch is in stark contrast to the precarity of the central protagonist’s life and the communities out of which the original Hedwig production emerged. While these tensions reveal some of the complicities between homonormativity, gentrification, and neoliberalism, by tracing Hedwig’s other genealogies, a more complicated vision of queer possibility e…
The proximity of the here and the urgency of the now
This essay discusses Lourdes Portillo's 2001 documentary Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman, which investigates the missing and murdered women in Juárez, Mexico. Through her compassionate use of testimonio, effective juxtaposition of documentary evidence, and incorporation of avant-garde techniques, Portillo forcefully shows how documentary can be deployed to powerful political ends as she creates an effective counter-narrative to challenge …
Transnational ways of seeing
I argue that transnational ways of seeing help us apprehend the histories of globalization, immigration and imperialism that frame and make legible cultural productions. Focusing on John Cameron Mitchell's 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which has been almost universally received as being about transsexuality, this essay argues that the film is equally about transnationality and specifically about how queer identifications and identities are…
Transnational ways of seeing
I argue that transnational ways of seeing help us apprehend the histories of globalization, immigration and imperialism that frame and make legible cultural productions. Focusing on John Cameron Mitchell's 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which has been almost universally received as being about transsexuality, this essay argues that the film is equally about transnationality and specifically about how queer identifications and identities are…
What can television do? Cultural representations of border violence in FX’s The Bridge
FX’s The Bridge uses the two decades of violence against women in Juárez, Mexico, as a backdrop for a crime procedural drama about a serial killer. While there is a long history of cultural activism about the murders, The Bridge is the first mainstream television show to address the violence. I argue that while the show repeatedly centers police and journalists rather than community organizers, and thus limits the possibility of representing the …
The proximity of the here and the urgency of the now
This essay discusses Lourdes Portillo's 2001 documentary Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman, which investigates the missing and murdered women in Juárez, Mexico. Through her compassionate use of testimonio, effective juxtaposition of documentary evidence, and incorporation of avant-garde techniques, Portillo forcefully shows how documentary can be deployed to powerful political ends as she creates an effective counter-narrative to challenge …
Transnational ways of seeing
I argue that transnational ways of seeing help us apprehend the histories of globalization, immigration and imperialism that frame and make legible cultural productions. Focusing on John Cameron Mitchell's 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which has been almost universally received as being about transsexuality, this essay argues that the film is equally about transnationality and specifically about how queer identifications and identities are…
The proximity of the here and the urgency of the now
This essay discusses Lourdes Portillo's 2001 documentary Señorita Extraviada/Missing Young Woman, which investigates the missing and murdered women in Juárez, Mexico. Through her compassionate use of testimonio, effective juxtaposition of documentary evidence, and incorporation of avant-garde techniques, Portillo forcefully shows how documentary can be deployed to powerful political ends as she creates an effective counter-narrative to challenge …
What can television do? Cultural representations of border violence in FX’s The Bridge
FX’s The Bridge uses the two decades of violence against women in Juárez, Mexico, as a backdrop for a crime procedural drama about a serial killer. While there is a long history of cultural activism about the murders, The Bridge is the first mainstream television show to address the violence. I argue that while the show repeatedly centers police and journalists rather than community organizers, and thus limits the possibility of representing the …
Hedwig revisited
The mainstream success of the 2014 Broadway revival of John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch is in stark contrast to the precarity of the central protagonist’s life and the communities out of which the original Hedwig production emerged. While these tensions reveal some of the complicities between homonormativity, gentrification, and neoliberalism, by tracing Hedwig’s other genealogies, a more complicated vision of queer possibility e…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works)