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Frederik Dhaenens

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ID658483
NAMEFrederik Dhaenens
GIVEN NAMESFrederik
FAMILY NAMEDhaenens
SIGNATUREDHAENENS F
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
ORCID0000-0003-1497-6592
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS110
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5
  • Postfeminist paradoxes

    Lotte Roels, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2026•References: 12

    The contemporary media landscape is marked by a paradox: while feminist empowerment discourses circulate widely across popular culture, they coexist with escalating misogyny. These tensions are shaped by postfeminist and neoliberal feminist sensibilities that increasingly forward individualised solutions to gender inequality while sidelining collective feminist action. As such feminist discourses shape how gender is understood and experienced, it…

  • Popular Music and LGBTQ+ Identities in the Age of Streaming

    Ben De Smet, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Popular Music & Society•2024•References: 11

    For this study, we conducted 24 in-depth interviews with LGBTQ+ Spotify users to understand the relations between LGBTQ+ identities, music, and music streaming. Participants displayed a wide range of meaningful music practices and views on music and identity. At the same time, the interviews showcased how the impalpable and ever-changing nature of music, new media, and identities make it difficult and often undesirable to actively dissect or defi…

  • Gay as cute

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Ben De Smet•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Television…•2024•References: 32

    Since the late 2010s, there has been a surge in gay teen drama series that portray their gay male protagonists as cute. This article focuses on four series ( Heartstopper, Young Royals, Love, Victor, and wtFOCK) and examines which formal and narrative practices are used to convey cuteness. It argues that, first, each series participates in the creation of the cute gay boy archetype; second, each series represents cuteness as vulnerable in an ambi…

  • Heteromasculinity and queer reappropriation in music streaming practices

    Ben De Smet, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2023•References: 14

    This article critically examines user-curated, public playlists on Spotify tagged with homonegative terminology. We consider these playlists discursive texts that reflect and co-construct discourses about the relations between music, music streaming, gender, and sexual identity. Applying theories from masculinity and queer studies and conducting a critical textual analysis of 21 playlists, this article unpacks how these playlists relate to homoph…

  • Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within

    Maxine De Wulf Helskens, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    Female and minority journalists in fiction movies and series are underrepresented and often framed as emotional, unstable, inexperienced, and unprofessional. These representations reiterate and preserve existing inequalities in Western newsrooms in which female and minority journalists face many obstacles ranging from the glass ceiling to a gender pay gap. However, these representations also have the potential to subvert and challenge existing st…

  • Just kidding?’ – an exploratory audience study into the ways Flemish youth with a minoritized ethnic identity make sense of ethnic humor and the politics of offense

    Anke Lion, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Humor - International Journal of…•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    Recently, ethnic humor (targeting ethnoreligious identities) is increasingly questioned in European and Western countries, sparking controversy on online and traditional media platforms. Absent from the mediated and academic debate are the opinions from targeted subjects of the joke. This qualitative audience study aims to add to critical humor scholarship by providing insight into how targeted groups make sense of disputes of offense. We intervi…

  • Fast-paced,' ‘snakey' and ‘commercial

    Open Access•Maxine De Wulf Helskens, Sarah Van Leuven et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    This study set out to understand how student audiences make sense of fictional representations of journalism in television series. To do so, we conducted five focus groups with American students. First, participants expressed a need for more diversity in representations of journalism in terms of narratives and characters as they see fiction as a complementary source of information on the profession. They relied on non-fictional reference media, n…

  • Trans persons on trans representations in popular media culture

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•DiGeSt Journal of Diversity and…•2022

    After having been largely ignored, people with a trans*gender identity are more represented in mainstream film and television, yet little research on the viewpoints of trans persons themselves exists (McInroy & Craig, 2015). Therefore, this article explores how Belgian transgender persons assess the recurring and contemporary media depictions of trans persons. Based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with transgender persons with ages ranging…

  • I’m just not gay-gay’

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Salma Mediavilla Aboulaoula et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    SKAM (NRK, 2015–2017), a popular Norwegian teen drama series, was praised for its season revolving around a nonheterosexual cis-male teenager coming to terms with his sexual desires and identity. Broadcasting companies from predominantly Western European countries bought the format and created local versions. The essay explores how SKAM and three Western European remakes represent same-sex desire and sexual identity formation. We found that the r…

  • Moderately Queer Programming at an Established LGBTQ Film Festival

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Journal of Homosexuality•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 29

    Many LGBTQ film festivals have transformed from bottom-up, community-driven events into established, profitable organizations. For some, this change has implied downplaying their activist agenda in favor of a celebratory and homonormative approach. This article demonstrates how BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, a long-running European LGBTQ film festival, has dealt with the turn to homonormativity. Reporting on a qualitative study on the role…

  • An Uneasy Return to the Role of Popular Culture

    Open Access•Niall Brennan, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Media and Communication•2021

    The editorial for the thematic issue of Media and Communication , “From Sony’s Walkman to RuPaul’s Drag Race : A Landscape of Contemporary Popular Culture,” looks at the prevailing themes of earlier studies of popular culture, from Raymond Williams’ organic culture to the postmodern embrace of commodity culture, in relation to the current cultural moment of disruption and unease. The editorial then synthesizes the articles contained in the issue …

  • Superheroines and superstereotypes? Queer postfeminism, intersectionality and female superheroes in Supergirl

    Open Access•Maxine De Wulf Helskens, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•DiGeSt Journal of Diversity and…•2021

    Since the new millennium, there has been a remarkable increase in audio-visual adaptations of superhero comic books (Garcia-Escriva, 2018). Whereas these adaptations used to include predominantly male superheroes, they have started to feature more female superheroes (Curtis & Cardo, 2018). An increase, however, does not imply diverse and rounded representations, since women in superhero movies tend to be depicted in stereotypical and sexualized w…

  • Timeless” rock masculinities

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2021•References: 13

    This article explores the gendered dimension of De Tijdloze Honderd (the Timeless Hundred), an annual Belgian radio music poll organized by public broadcasting radio station Studio Brussel. Female artists have been consistently underrepresented in the poll of all-time favorite songs. Drawing on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of ten editions of the program throughout its history, this study set out to assess gender disparity in the Timele…

  • Intimacies and Digital Media Infrastructures

    Open Access•Sander De Ridder, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2020

    The breadth of what it means to study intimacies in the context of media has changed significantly in recent years because of current technological, social, and cultural changes. The digital mediation of intimacy - the changing attitudes, experiences, and practices of intimacy performed through digital media - demands that scholars look beyond well-established frameworks for studying intimacy and media, expanding their methodological and theoreti…

  • LGBT+ televisibility in Flanders

    Open Access•Florian Vanlee, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•DiGeSt Journal of Diversity and…•2020

    Fictional representations of LGBT+ people offer a way to study how socio-cultural discourses on sexual and gender identity are reflected in popular culture. Notwithstanding the fact that particular contexts play a pivotal role in this dynamic, queer television theory currently derives exclusively from U.S. cases. With a quantitative analysis of LGBT+ characters in Flemish television fiction between 2001 and 2016, this study provides a descriptive…

  • Representing gender-based violence in teen series

    Maria-Jose Masanet, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    Through the analysis of the fans’ forum of a popular Spanish teen series, Física o Química (2008–2011), this study explores what meanings audiences give to the series’ representation of gender violence, focussing on how they deal with the representation of male aggression towards women and how audiences reflect on gender stereotypes and unequal romantic and sexual adolescent relationships. This qualitative analysis has been carried out inductivel…

  • Distinctively queer in the Parish

    Open Access•Florian Vanlee, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    This article troubles the intuitive link between emancipatory portrayals of sexual and gender diversity and ‘quality television’ by focusing on three Flemish ‘prestige’ dramas: Met Man en Macht (VIER, 2013), Bevergem (Canvas, 2015) and Den Elfde Van Den Elfde (één, 2016). Contrary to the United States, Flemish quality television portrays fewer LGBTQ+ characters and narratives than less ‘prestigious’ content. Approached from a Bourdieusian perspec…

  • Audiences’ Coping Practices with Intrusive Interfaces

    Open Access•Anne Mollen, Frederik Dhaenens•CHAPTER•The Future of Audiences•2018

  • How queer is ‘pink’ programming? On the representational politics of an identity-based film program at Film Fest Gent

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2018

    International film festivals (IFFs) are increasingly taking an interest in offering programs that target LGBT audiences. Since this practice can be understood as an emancipatory and commercial strategy, this article examines the implications of this ambiguity within an IFF’s politics of representation. Drawing on the results from a textual and contextual analysis of the films and programming strategies of the 2014 Film Fest Gent in Belgium, this …

  • Understanding Queer Normality

    Open Access•Florian Vanlee, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    Queer television studies scholarship tends to construct “queerness” and “normality” as incommensurable concepts, defining queer “against the normal rather than the heterosexual.” In this article, we show how this construction is specifically intertwined with highly liberalized media contexts, and generates a fundamentally static understanding and operationalization of the concept of normality in queer television studies. Turning to Flemish televi…

  • Gendered ageing bodies in popular media culture

    Iolanda Tortajada, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    Grace and Frankie (2015 to present), the Netflix original about two 70-year-old women who become unlikely friends after their respective husbands confess they have been in love with each other for

  • Press play for pride’

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, J Burge•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2018•Cited by: 8•References: 10

    This article explores the cultural practice of creating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-themed playlists on music streaming services. It aims to understand how LGBTQ identities and cultures are represented and negotiated through the use of, and shaped by, digital media platforms. Through the textual analysis of 37 LGBTQ-themed Spotify playlists, we identified four cultural logics that structure the practice of playlist cura…

  • (Un)covering masculinities in cover song videos

    Frederik Dhaenens•CHAPTER•Routledge Companion to Media Fandom•2017

    This chapter focuses on the gendered dimensions and meanings of this media practice. It explores how the mediation of the popular practice of covering may affect the way masculinity is embodied by male cover fan-producers. The genre of cover song videos is typified by a shared approach to how original songs are appropriated. Queer interventions are able to expose and challenge the discriminatory practices of heteronormativity by giving a voice to…

  • Same-sex love in times of Dutroux

    Florian Vanlee, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•Catalan Journal of Communication…•2017•References: 5

    In this article, we point to the peculiar conjuncture between the increased emancipation of gay men and lesbian women in late 1990s’ Belgium, and the noted impact of the contemporaneous Dutroux affair on the construction of sexual diversity in the country. Approaching the case as a moral panic, we conducted a discourse analysis of the associated coverage in four mainstream Flemish newspapers, focusing on the articulation of homosexuality with chi…

  • Historical, temporal and contemporary trends on gender and media

    Núria Araüna, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Catalan Journal of Communication…•2017•References: 72

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  • Teenage queerness

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2012•Cited by: 26•References: 4

    Despite a significant increase in gay representation in contemporary television fiction, many media scholars argue that the representation of gay men and women is governed by heteronormativity. They postulate that even rounded and heterogeneous representations of gay men and women are characters that desire to participate in institutions, practices, norms, and values that consolidate the heterosexual matrix. Yet, within a cultural studies traditi…

  • The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

    Open Access•Sofie Van Bauwel, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•BOOK•The international encyclopedia of…•2012•Cited by: 21•References: 21

    The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 175 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field. Includes more than 175 essays written by over 200 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe Arranged…

  • Press play for pride’

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, J Burge•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2018•Cited by: 8•References: 10

    This article explores the cultural practice of creating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-themed playlists on music streaming services. It aims to understand how LGBTQ identities and cultures are represented and negotiated through the use of, and shaped by, digital media platforms. Through the textual analysis of 37 LGBTQ-themed Spotify playlists, we identified four cultural logics that structure the practice of playlist cura…

  • Queer cuttings on YouTube

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 4

    Despite the increasing efforts of representing gay main characters, popular soap operas still hinge on the discourse of heteronormativity. Queer theorists have uttered the necessity for exposing the oppressiveness of heteronormative practices and offering viable alternatives to the heteronormative way of living. This article argues that fan-produced re-edited videos of soap operas may embed the potential to expose and challenge the way that heter…

  • Understanding Queer Normality

    Open Access•Florian Vanlee, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    Queer television studies scholarship tends to construct “queerness” and “normality” as incommensurable concepts, defining queer “against the normal rather than the heterosexual.” In this article, we show how this construction is specifically intertwined with highly liberalized media contexts, and generates a fundamentally static understanding and operationalization of the concept of normality in queer television studies. Turning to Flemish televi…

  • Articulations of queer resistance on the small screen

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Continuum•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    Despite the increase of gay characters on the small screen, many contemporary media scholars argue that gay representations in Western television productions are governed by heteronormativity. Yet, a few queer theoretically informed media scholars postulate that popular television is able to articulate queer resistance to the privileged position of the heterosexual matrix. With this article, I contribute to the exploration of the resistant potent…

  • Fast-paced,' ‘snakey' and ‘commercial

    Open Access•Maxine De Wulf Helskens, Sarah Van Leuven et al.•ARTICLE•Journalism•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 13

    This study set out to understand how student audiences make sense of fictional representations of journalism in television series. To do so, we conducted five focus groups with American students. First, participants expressed a need for more diversity in representations of journalism in terms of narratives and characters as they see fiction as a complementary source of information on the profession. They relied on non-fictional reference media, n…

  • Reading Gay Music Videos

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Popular Music & Society•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    The representation of sexual diversity has recently become common within popular music videos. Whether as part of a subplot or as main narrative, gay and lesbian identities and same-sex desire are key to these “gay music videos.” Drawing on queer theory-informed popular culture studies, this article investigates the way these videos negotiate heteronormativity. By means of a textual analysis of how seven contemporary gay music videos represent sa…

  • Gay Male Domesticity on the Small Screen

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Popular Communication•2012•Cited by: 4•References: 9

    This article acknowledges that contemporary representations of gay domesticity in popular television fiction are often shaped by the discourse of heteronormativity. However, drawing on the potential of popular culture to resist heteronormativity, this article argues that representations of gay domesticity can also be interpreted in terms of queer resistance. To this end, a textual thematic analysis of Brothers & Sisters and Six Feet Under was con…

  • Repackaged sob sisters and outsiders within

    Maxine De Wulf Helskens, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 14

    Female and minority journalists in fiction movies and series are underrepresented and often framed as emotional, unstable, inexperienced, and unprofessional. These representations reiterate and preserve existing inequalities in Western newsrooms in which female and minority journalists face many obstacles ranging from the glass ceiling to a gender pay gap. However, these representations also have the potential to subvert and challenge existing st…

  • Just kidding?’ – an exploratory audience study into the ways Flemish youth with a minoritized ethnic identity make sense of ethnic humor and the politics of offense

    Anke Lion, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Humor - International Journal of…•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 9

    Recently, ethnic humor (targeting ethnoreligious identities) is increasingly questioned in European and Western countries, sparking controversy on online and traditional media platforms. Absent from the mediated and academic debate are the opinions from targeted subjects of the joke. This qualitative audience study aims to add to critical humor scholarship by providing insight into how targeted groups make sense of disputes of offense. We intervi…

  • Gendered ageing bodies in popular media culture

    Iolanda Tortajada, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    Grace and Frankie (2015 to present), the Netflix original about two 70-year-old women who become unlikely friends after their respective husbands confess they have been in love with each other for

  • Resistant masculinities in alternative R&B? Understanding Frank Ocean and The Weeknd’s representations of gender

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sander De Ridder•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    With the emergence of alternative R&B, contemporary R&B and hip hop culture are being confronted with a subgenre that challenges its key characteristics. One of the aspects that typify alternative R&B is the emergence of an alternative masculinity. The aim of this study is to research whether the alternative masculinities represented in alternative R&B resist the hegemonic masculine ideal established within R&B and hip hop culture. To this end, t…

  • Slashing the Fiction of Queer Theory

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2008•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    The popularity of slash fiction, a productive strand of fan fiction in which same-sex television or film characters are subversively made into queer subjects, has grown in recent years. The practice of queer readings, which is about repositioning texts outside the borders of heteronormativity, very much resembles some of the basic premises of queer theory, the post-structural theory that contests strict categorical views on gender and sexuality. …

  • I’m just not gay-gay’

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Salma Mediavilla Aboulaoula et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 13

    SKAM (NRK, 2015–2017), a popular Norwegian teen drama series, was praised for its season revolving around a nonheterosexual cis-male teenager coming to terms with his sexual desires and identity. Broadcasting companies from predominantly Western European countries bought the format and created local versions. The essay explores how SKAM and three Western European remakes represent same-sex desire and sexual identity formation. We found that the r…

  • Representing gender-based violence in teen series

    Maria-Jose Masanet, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    Through the analysis of the fans’ forum of a popular Spanish teen series, Física o Química (2008–2011), this study explores what meanings audiences give to the series’ representation of gender violence, focussing on how they deal with the representation of male aggression towards women and how audiences reflect on gender stereotypes and unequal romantic and sexual adolescent relationships. This qualitative analysis has been carried out inductivel…

  • The power of celebrities

    Sandra Wagemaker, Sandra Wagemakers et al.•ARTICLE•Celebrity Studies•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 24

    Makeover television is generally interested in transforming individuals. Often these programmes alter participants on an individual basis, ignore structural problems, and enforce normative ideas of the good citizen. An important role is preserved for celebrities, considered able to help these individuals by performing the role of expert. This article aims to demonstrate how celebrities are legitimised with the power to transform young individuals…

  • Moderately Queer Programming at an Established LGBTQ Film Festival

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Journal of Homosexuality•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 29

    Many LGBTQ film festivals have transformed from bottom-up, community-driven events into established, profitable organizations. For some, this change has implied downplaying their activist agenda in favor of a celebratory and homonormative approach. This article demonstrates how BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, a long-running European LGBTQ film festival, has dealt with the turn to homonormativity. Reporting on a qualitative study on the role…

  • Distinctively queer in the Parish

    Open Access•Florian Vanlee, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    This article troubles the intuitive link between emancipatory portrayals of sexual and gender diversity and ‘quality television’ by focusing on three Flemish ‘prestige’ dramas: Met Man en Macht (VIER, 2013), Bevergem (Canvas, 2015) and Den Elfde Van Den Elfde (één, 2016). Contrary to the United States, Flemish quality television portrays fewer LGBTQ+ characters and narratives than less ‘prestigious’ content. Approached from a Bourdieusian perspec…

  • Queer Resistances in the Adult Animated Sitcom

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    This article studies the representation of queer characters and themes in the contemporary adult animated sitcom. We argue that even though popular culture is often assumed to reiterate and consolidate the discourse of heteronormativity, adult animated sitcoms create space for queer resistance. Since the genre draws on postmodern strategies of representation, we argue that queer resistance is subversively articulated through instances of pastiche…

  • Slashing the Fiction of Queer Theory

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication Inquiry•2008•Cited by: 3•References: 20

    The popularity of slash fiction, a productive strand of fan fiction in which same-sex television or film characters are subversively made into queer subjects, has grown in recent years. The practice of queer readings, which is about repositioning texts outside the borders of heteronormativity, very much resembles some of the basic premises of queer theory, the post-structural theory that contests strict categorical views on gender and sexuality. …

  • Wallowing in Sex

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Historical Journal Of Film Radio…•2010

  • Queer Resistances in the Adult Animated Sitcom

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2011•Cited by: 1•References: 8

    This article studies the representation of queer characters and themes in the contemporary adult animated sitcom. We argue that even though popular culture is often assumed to reiterate and consolidate the discourse of heteronormativity, adult animated sitcoms create space for queer resistance. Since the genre draws on postmodern strategies of representation, we argue that queer resistance is subversively articulated through instances of pastiche…

  • Queer Gazing and the Popular

    Open Access•Sofie Van Bauwel, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•CHAPTER•2012

    In this chapter, we elaborate on the construction of queer representations in popular television fiction. In spite of the critical and commercial success of “queer” television fiction series (e.g., Queer as Folk , The L Word , Six Feet Under ), queer representations are sometimes still seen as controversial. The aim of this chapter is to obtain a better insight into the social and emancipating role of queer representations in contemporary popular…

  • The good, the bad or the queer

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2012

    Although the representation of queer characters has grown significantly in contemporary western television, most of the popular fiction series are still dominated by hegemonic heteronormative discourses. However, this article demonstrates how the critically acclaimed series The Wire, through its subversive articulations of queer characters, resists heteronormativity. This implies that the series can be read as a defiance of an essentialist, hiera…

  • Gay Male Domesticity on the Small Screen

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Popular Communication•2012•Cited by: 4•References: 9

    This article acknowledges that contemporary representations of gay domesticity in popular television fiction are often shaped by the discourse of heteronormativity. However, drawing on the potential of popular culture to resist heteronormativity, this article argues that representations of gay domesticity can also be interpreted in terms of queer resistance. To this end, a textual thematic analysis of Brothers & Sisters and Six Feet Under was con…

  • The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

    Open Access•Sofie Van Bauwel, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•BOOK•The international encyclopedia of…•2012•Cited by: 21•References: 21

    The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 175 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field. Includes more than 175 essays written by over 200 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe Arranged…

  • Queer cuttings on YouTube

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2012•Cited by: 8•References: 4

    Despite the increasing efforts of representing gay main characters, popular soap operas still hinge on the discourse of heteronormativity. Queer theorists have uttered the necessity for exposing the oppressiveness of heteronormative practices and offering viable alternatives to the heteronormative way of living. This article argues that fan-produced re-edited videos of soap operas may embed the potential to expose and challenge the way that heter…

  • Teenage queerness

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2012•Cited by: 26•References: 4

    Despite a significant increase in gay representation in contemporary television fiction, many media scholars argue that the representation of gay men and women is governed by heteronormativity. They postulate that even rounded and heterogeneous representations of gay men and women are characters that desire to participate in institutions, practices, norms, and values that consolidate the heterosexual matrix. Yet, within a cultural studies traditi…

  • Resistant masculinities in alternative R&B? Understanding Frank Ocean and The Weeknd’s representations of gender

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, Sander De Ridder•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    With the emergence of alternative R&B, contemporary R&B and hip hop culture are being confronted with a subgenre that challenges its key characteristics. One of the aspects that typify alternative R&B is the emergence of an alternative masculinity. The aim of this study is to research whether the alternative masculinities represented in alternative R&B resist the hegemonic masculine ideal established within R&B and hip hop culture. To this end, t…

  • Articulations of queer resistance on the small screen

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Continuum•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 8

    Despite the increase of gay characters on the small screen, many contemporary media scholars argue that gay representations in Western television productions are governed by heteronormativity. Yet, a few queer theoretically informed media scholars postulate that popular television is able to articulate queer resistance to the privileged position of the heterosexual matrix. With this article, I contribute to the exploration of the resistant potent…

  • Reading Gay Music Videos

    Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Popular Music & Society•2015•Cited by: 4•References: 10

    The representation of sexual diversity has recently become common within popular music videos. Whether as part of a subplot or as main narrative, gay and lesbian identities and same-sex desire are key to these “gay music videos.” Drawing on queer theory-informed popular culture studies, this article investigates the way these videos negotiate heteronormativity. By means of a textual analysis of how seven contemporary gay music videos represent sa…

  • The power of celebrities

    Sandra Wagemaker, Sandra Wagemakers et al.•ARTICLE•Celebrity Studies•2015•Cited by: 2•References: 24

    Makeover television is generally interested in transforming individuals. Often these programmes alter participants on an individual basis, ignore structural problems, and enforce normative ideas of the good citizen. An important role is preserved for celebrities, considered able to help these individuals by performing the role of expert. This article aims to demonstrate how celebrities are legitimised with the power to transform young individuals…

  • Fans Who Cut Their Soaps Queer

    Frederik Dhaenens, Sofie Van Bauwel•CHAPTER•Ashgate Research Companion to Fan…•2016

    The popularization of the Internet, the participatory possibilities of Web 2.0 and the increased availability of video capture and editing software paved the path for fandom to go online. The innovations enabled fans to more easily participate in diverse socio-cultural contexts and provided fans already involved in creating fan productions with a broader audience. For Cornel Sandvoss, the notion of fans in popular and academic thought has emerged…

  • (Un)covering masculinities in cover song videos

    Frederik Dhaenens•CHAPTER•Routledge Companion to Media Fandom•2017

    This chapter focuses on the gendered dimensions and meanings of this media practice. It explores how the mediation of the popular practice of covering may affect the way masculinity is embodied by male cover fan-producers. The genre of cover song videos is typified by a shared approach to how original songs are appropriated. Queer interventions are able to expose and challenge the discriminatory practices of heteronormativity by giving a voice to…

  • Same-sex love in times of Dutroux

    Florian Vanlee, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•Catalan Journal of Communication…•2017•References: 5

    In this article, we point to the peculiar conjuncture between the increased emancipation of gay men and lesbian women in late 1990s’ Belgium, and the noted impact of the contemporaneous Dutroux affair on the construction of sexual diversity in the country. Approaching the case as a moral panic, we conducted a discourse analysis of the associated coverage in four mainstream Flemish newspapers, focusing on the articulation of homosexuality with chi…

  • Historical, temporal and contemporary trends on gender and media

    Núria Araüna, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Catalan Journal of Communication…•2017•References: 72

  • Audiences’ Coping Practices with Intrusive Interfaces

    Open Access•Anne Mollen, Frederik Dhaenens•CHAPTER•The Future of Audiences•2018

  • How queer is ‘pink’ programming? On the representational politics of an identity-based film program at Film Fest Gent

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Sexualities•2018

    International film festivals (IFFs) are increasingly taking an interest in offering programs that target LGBT audiences. Since this practice can be understood as an emancipatory and commercial strategy, this article examines the implications of this ambiguity within an IFF’s politics of representation. Drawing on the results from a textual and contextual analysis of the films and programming strategies of the 2014 Film Fest Gent in Belgium, this …

  • Understanding Queer Normality

    Open Access•Florian Vanlee, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Television & New Media•2018•Cited by: 6•References: 17

    Queer television studies scholarship tends to construct “queerness” and “normality” as incommensurable concepts, defining queer “against the normal rather than the heterosexual.” In this article, we show how this construction is specifically intertwined with highly liberalized media contexts, and generates a fundamentally static understanding and operationalization of the concept of normality in queer television studies. Turning to Flemish televi…

  • Gendered ageing bodies in popular media culture

    Iolanda Tortajada, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Media Studies•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    Grace and Frankie (2015 to present), the Netflix original about two 70-year-old women who become unlikely friends after their respective husbands confess they have been in love with each other for

  • Press play for pride’

    Open Access•Frederik Dhaenens, J Burge•ARTICLE•New Media & Society•2018•Cited by: 8•References: 10

    This article explores the cultural practice of creating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)-themed playlists on music streaming services. It aims to understand how LGBTQ identities and cultures are represented and negotiated through the use of, and shaped by, digital media platforms. Through the textual analysis of 37 LGBTQ-themed Spotify playlists, we identified four cultural logics that structure the practice of playlist cura…

  • Representing gender-based violence in teen series

    Maria-Jose Masanet, Frederik Dhaenens•ARTICLE•Journal of Youth Studies•2019•Cited by: 2•References: 5

    Through the analysis of the fans’ forum of a popular Spanish teen series, Física o Química (2008–2011), this study explores what meanings audiences give to the series’ representation of gender violence, focussing on how they deal with the representation of male aggression towards women and how audiences reflect on gender stereotypes and unequal romantic and sexual adolescent relationships. This qualitative analysis has been carried out inductivel…

  • Distinctively queer in the Parish

    Open Access•Florian Vanlee, Sofie Van Bauwel et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 5

    This article troubles the intuitive link between emancipatory portrayals of sexual and gender diversity and ‘quality television’ by focusing on three Flemish ‘prestige’ dramas: Met Man en Macht (VIER, 2013), Bevergem (Canvas, 2015) and Den Elfde Van Den Elfde (één, 2016). Contrary to the United States, Flemish quality television portrays fewer LGBTQ+ characters and narratives than less ‘prestigious’ content. Approached from a Bourdieusian perspec…

  • Intimacies and Digital Media Infrastructures

    Open Access•Sander De Ridder, Frederik Dhaenens et al.•ARTICLE•AoIR Selected Papers of Internet…•2020

    The breadth of what it means to study intimacies in the context of media has changed significantly in recent years because of current technological, social, and cultural changes. The digital mediation of intimacy - the changing attitudes, experiences, and practices of intimacy performed through digital media - demands that scholars look beyond well-established frameworks for studying intimacy and media, expanding their methodological and theoreti…

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