André Mendes Cavalcante
Biographic Data
| ID | 4792824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | André Mendes Cavalcante |
| GIVEN NAMES | André Mendes |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavalcante |
| SIGNATURE | CAVALCANTE A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1383-7881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Tumbling Into Queer Utopias and Vortexes
Drawing on one year of fieldwork with LGBTQ youth, I explore the ways Tumblr, a microblogging and social networking site, has become a vibrant center of queer discourse and collectivity. I argue that for LGBTQ users, Tumblr simultaneously generates the specter of a "queer utopia"-a space where queer potential flourishes and more expansive ways to think about the future materialize-and queer "vortextuality"-an experience of being sucked into an on…
Affect, emotion, and media audiences
In this article, I place qualitative audience research in conversation with theories of affect. Informed by participant data from two qualitative audience studies I have conducted with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) audiences in the United States, I illustrate how cultural representations can make significant demands on one’s emotional and affective life, requiring practices of rest, rebuilding, and reclamation. I call thi…
Feminist reception studies in a post-audience age
Joke O. K. E. Hermes recently wrote that “Qualitative audience studies have arguably been the best possible expression of feminist engagement in media studies” (2014, 61). It was the recognition th
Breaking Into Transgender Life
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with transgender individuals and communities, this article explores transgender audiences' interactions with what I call “breakout texts,” media that portray “first of its kind” representation. I analyze the films Boys Don't Cry (1999) and TransAmerica (2005) as transgender breakout texts, or media that break into the cultural mainstream, break with historical representational paradigms, and break into the ever…
Anxious Displacements
On popular television, parenting narratives have emerged as a dominant representational paradigm in depicting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) subjectivities as “normal.” However, I argue that the work of normalization in TV programs also operates on figures and relationships related to gay parents. I identify this secondary process as “anxious displacement” in which figures and relationships circulating around gay parents are overl…
Tumbling Into Queer Utopias and Vortexes
Drawing on one year of fieldwork with LGBTQ youth, I explore the ways Tumblr, a microblogging and social networking site, has become a vibrant center of queer discourse and collectivity. I argue that for LGBTQ users, Tumblr simultaneously generates the specter of a "queer utopia"-a space where queer potential flourishes and more expansive ways to think about the future materialize-and queer "vortextuality"-an experience of being sucked into an on…
Feminist reception studies in a post-audience age
Joke O. K. E. Hermes recently wrote that “Qualitative audience studies have arguably been the best possible expression of feminist engagement in media studies” (2014, 61). It was the recognition th
Breaking Into Transgender Life
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with transgender individuals and communities, this article explores transgender audiences' interactions with what I call “breakout texts,” media that portray “first of its kind” representation. I analyze the films Boys Don't Cry (1999) and TransAmerica (2005) as transgender breakout texts, or media that break into the cultural mainstream, break with historical representational paradigms, and break into the ever…
Affect, emotion, and media audiences
In this article, I place qualitative audience research in conversation with theories of affect. Informed by participant data from two qualitative audience studies I have conducted with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) audiences in the United States, I illustrate how cultural representations can make significant demands on one’s emotional and affective life, requiring practices of rest, rebuilding, and reclamation. I call thi…
Anxious Displacements
On popular television, parenting narratives have emerged as a dominant representational paradigm in depicting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) subjectivities as “normal.” However, I argue that the work of normalization in TV programs also operates on figures and relationships related to gay parents. I identify this secondary process as “anxious displacement” in which figures and relationships circulating around gay parents are overl…
Anxious Displacements
On popular television, parenting narratives have emerged as a dominant representational paradigm in depicting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) subjectivities as “normal.” However, I argue that the work of normalization in TV programs also operates on figures and relationships related to gay parents. I identify this secondary process as “anxious displacement” in which figures and relationships circulating around gay parents are overl…
Feminist reception studies in a post-audience age
Joke O. K. E. Hermes recently wrote that “Qualitative audience studies have arguably been the best possible expression of feminist engagement in media studies” (2014, 61). It was the recognition th
Breaking Into Transgender Life
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with transgender individuals and communities, this article explores transgender audiences' interactions with what I call “breakout texts,” media that portray “first of its kind” representation. I analyze the films Boys Don't Cry (1999) and TransAmerica (2005) as transgender breakout texts, or media that break into the cultural mainstream, break with historical representational paradigms, and break into the ever…
Affect, emotion, and media audiences
In this article, I place qualitative audience research in conversation with theories of affect. Informed by participant data from two qualitative audience studies I have conducted with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) audiences in the United States, I illustrate how cultural representations can make significant demands on one’s emotional and affective life, requiring practices of rest, rebuilding, and reclamation. I call thi…
Tumbling Into Queer Utopias and Vortexes
Drawing on one year of fieldwork with LGBTQ youth, I explore the ways Tumblr, a microblogging and social networking site, has become a vibrant center of queer discourse and collectivity. I argue that for LGBTQ users, Tumblr simultaneously generates the specter of a "queer utopia"-a space where queer potential flourishes and more expansive ways to think about the future materialize-and queer "vortextuality"-an experience of being sucked into an on…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works)