Clara Bradbury‐Rance
Biographic Data
| ID | 6364241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clara Bradbury‐Rance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bradbury‐Rance |
| SIGNATURE | RANCE C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8893-3379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Butch Barbie
Ambivalent Masculinities in Contemporary Film and TV
In 1999, Jamie Babbit’s lesbian cult classic But I’m a Cheerleader parodied the absurd correlations between cisgender roles, styles, and heteronorms. In doing so, it gave audiences the opportunity to laugh at the assumptions of “gaydar”: the notion that you can make a connection between gender nonconformity and sexuality. This article explores how the landscape of queer and trans representation in film and TV has shifted in the intervening decade…
‘Unique joy’
This article discusses the ‘Netflix imaginary’ and how it shapes our understanding of queer taste and legibility in contemporary visual culture. While Netflix has promoted itself as a bastion of LGBTQ inclusivity and other forms of ‘diversity’, this article considers the platform not on the basis of celebrated LGBTQ ‘Netflix Originals’ such as Sex Education or Queer Eye but rather on how our navigations of the platform’s content throw our queer a…
Appropriate Feminisms
Across her body of work in film, television, and digital media, Desiree Akhavan has captured the awkward politics of cultural production for female filmmakers and media-makers. Yet she has also refused to straightforwardly align her work with feminist critiques of dominant cultural production practices, however much she is interpellated by them. Akhavan, a queer woman of color in a racist, sexist, and homophobic industry, negotiates both contempo…
Introduction to the special issue
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Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory
A sustained analysis of twenty-first century lesbian cinema through a queer theoretical lens. The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory’s radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this contradictory context has yielded new kinds of cinematic language through which to give desire visual…
Ambiguous intimacy as queer potential
This article analyses the ambiguous intimacies generated by the competition that permeates desire in Lisa Aschan's She Monkeys (2011). The article argues that in a new corpus of films about adolescence, the queerness of lesbian desire is evoked as a series of affects outside of figurative norms. Desire meets and is confused with other affects such as envy and disgust, all of which attach, sometimes simultaneously, to objects that do not always se…
Queer post-gender ethics
Introduction to the special issue
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Queer post-gender ethics
Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory
A sustained analysis of twenty-first century lesbian cinema through a queer theoretical lens. The unprecedented increase in lesbian representation over the past two decades has, paradoxically, coincided with queer theory’s radical transformation of the study of sexuality. In Lesbian Cinema after Queer Theory, Clara Bradbury-Rance argues that this contradictory context has yielded new kinds of cinematic language through which to give desire visual…
Ambiguous intimacy as queer potential
This article analyses the ambiguous intimacies generated by the competition that permeates desire in Lisa Aschan's She Monkeys (2011). The article argues that in a new corpus of films about adolescence, the queerness of lesbian desire is evoked as a series of affects outside of figurative norms. Desire meets and is confused with other affects such as envy and disgust, all of which attach, sometimes simultaneously, to objects that do not always se…
Introduction to the special issue
mi ni s t cl ai m s t o t e c h ni c al la n g u a g e .F e mi ni s t M e di a S t u di e s 2 0 (5) , p p .7 3 0-7 3 2. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 1 4 6 8 0 7 7 7. 2 0 2 0
Appropriate Feminisms
Across her body of work in film, television, and digital media, Desiree Akhavan has captured the awkward politics of cultural production for female filmmakers and media-makers. Yet she has also refused to straightforwardly align her work with feminist critiques of dominant cultural production practices, however much she is interpellated by them. Akhavan, a queer woman of color in a racist, sexist, and homophobic industry, negotiates both contempo…
‘Unique joy’
This article discusses the ‘Netflix imaginary’ and how it shapes our understanding of queer taste and legibility in contemporary visual culture. While Netflix has promoted itself as a bastion of LGBTQ inclusivity and other forms of ‘diversity’, this article considers the platform not on the basis of celebrated LGBTQ ‘Netflix Originals’ such as Sex Education or Queer Eye but rather on how our navigations of the platform’s content throw our queer a…
Ambivalent Masculinities in Contemporary Film and TV
In 1999, Jamie Babbit’s lesbian cult classic But I’m a Cheerleader parodied the absurd correlations between cisgender roles, styles, and heteronorms. In doing so, it gave audiences the opportunity to laugh at the assumptions of “gaydar”: the notion that you can make a connection between gender nonconformity and sexuality. This article explores how the landscape of queer and trans representation in film and TV has shifted in the intervening decade…
Butch Barbie
Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Queer (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Ambivalence (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works)