Christopher Pullen
Biographic Data
| ID | 658504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Pullen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Pullen |
| SIGNATURE | PULLEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8093-4684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
It started with a kiss' EastEnders and subversion from within: Domestic 'queer' star persona and British social realism
This paper explores the performativity of the domestic queer star persona in soap opera, foregrounding the historical presence of Michael Cashman, the LGBTQ+ rights activist, who appeared as the first queer character in EastEnders , in 1986. Cashman's later cameo roles in 2016 and 2022 are also explored, alongside evaluating the appearance of other openly gay actors taking on queer roles in EastEnders , demonstrating the potential for 'subversion…
"Were in this together" - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality
This paper explores the work of regional NGO organisations in the UK that explicitly support LGBTQ + asylum claimants, framing the testimonials of both service providers and service users, in considering issues of co-presence, and imagined equality, that may be experienced between the parties. While framing the cultural and political environment at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and critiquing citizenship as a purely hegemonic nationalistic c…
The ‘Undocuqueer’ movement and DREAMers: Activist online space and the affective queer body
This article explores the advent of the ‘Undocuqueer’ movement, an activist social network that represents the life chances of undocumented queer youth migrants in the United States, arguing for acceptance, equality and integration, with a particular focus on needs for education. Considering the promise of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (a possible legislative act that would offer education to undocumented migrant yout…
Queer Male Bodies and the Cinematic Liminal Beach
Transpeople in Performative Documentary: Self‐Representation, Citizenship, and Transparency
This paper explores the representation of transgendered identity within filmic and televisual documentary, focusing on issues of sexuality, gender and youth. A conceptual framework is established, examining historical foundations, documentary theory, and the aesthetics of domesticity. There are 8 major case studies – There is Something About Miriam (2004), My Dad Diane (2005), Trantasia (2007), She’s a Boy I Knew (2007), Lucy: Teenage Transsexual…
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television
Examines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary mediaExploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the 'hetero media gaze' and the way it contextualizes sexual diversity and gender identity. Offering both an historical foundation and a rigorous conceptual fra…
Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide
Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence
Ana Douglass and Thomas A. Vogler (2003) tell us: While individual trauma confers individual identity, the function of trauma as a ‘social glue’ holds groups together on the basis of ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, disease or handicap. (p. 12) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Queer Youth and Media Cultures
This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online media. Offering an interdisciplinary focus and presenting a range of contributions from authors based in and/or writing about the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Turkey, India, Scandinavia and Africa, it is organized under three sections: 'Performance and Culture', 'Histories and Commodity,' and 'Tran…
Rob Cover, Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives
LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fict
Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media
Heroic gay characters in popular film: Tragic determination, and the everyday
This essay discusses gay identity and notions of character construction relating to the concept of tragic determination in media representations. Issues of adaptation and the significance of the Dionysian and Apollonian drives within tragedy (relating to Nietzsche's foundational work) are explored. A key concept is the examination of tensions between civic usefulness and emotive potential. Through an examination of Alan Turing's disavowal as a ga…
LGBT Identity and Online New Media
Preface Introduction, Christopher Pullen Part I: Active Youth 1.The Murder of Lawrence King and LGBT Online Stimulations of Narrative Copresence, Christopher Pullen 2.A YouTube of One's Own?: Coming Videos as Rhetorical Action Jonathan Alexander & Elizabeth Losh 3.YouTube Courtship: The Private Ins and Public Outs of Chris and Nickas, Damon Lindler Lazzara 4.Virtually Supportive: Self-Disclosure Of Minority Sexualities Through Online Social Netwo…
LGBT identity & online new media
Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media
Other Storytelling and the New Frontier
Ashraf Zanati (see Figure 7.1), a former teacher and one of 52 men arrested in Cairo, Egypt, for ‘debauchery’ in 2001, in an incident which would stimulate worldwide attention concerning gay identity in the developing world, tells us (in the documentary Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (John Scagliotti, 2001, US)): I stayed in prison for 13 months. I tried to make myself quite useful, I adapted myself. I thought that I am ther…
Aids orphans, parents and children in documentary: Disclosure, performance and sacrifice
Queer Youth and Media Cultures
This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online media. Offering an interdisciplinary focus and presenting a range of contributions from authors based in and/or writing about the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Turkey, India, Scandinavia and Africa, it is organized under three sections: 'Performance and Culture', 'Histories and Commodity,' and 'Tran…
LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fict
Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media
"Were in this together" - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality
This paper explores the work of regional NGO organisations in the UK that explicitly support LGBTQ + asylum claimants, framing the testimonials of both service providers and service users, in considering issues of co-presence, and imagined equality, that may be experienced between the parties. While framing the cultural and political environment at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and critiquing citizenship as a purely hegemonic nationalistic c…
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television
Examines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary mediaExploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the 'hetero media gaze' and the way it contextualizes sexual diversity and gender identity. Offering both an historical foundation and a rigorous conceptual fra…
Heroic gay characters in popular film: Tragic determination, and the everyday
This essay discusses gay identity and notions of character construction relating to the concept of tragic determination in media representations. Issues of adaptation and the significance of the Dionysian and Apollonian drives within tragedy (relating to Nietzsche's foundational work) are explored. A key concept is the examination of tensions between civic usefulness and emotive potential. Through an examination of Alan Turing's disavowal as a ga…
Aids orphans, parents and children in documentary: Disclosure, performance and sacrifice
Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media
Other Storytelling and the New Frontier
Ashraf Zanati (see Figure 7.1), a former teacher and one of 52 men arrested in Cairo, Egypt, for ‘debauchery’ in 2001, in an incident which would stimulate worldwide attention concerning gay identity in the developing world, tells us (in the documentary Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World (John Scagliotti, 2001, US)): I stayed in prison for 13 months. I tried to make myself quite useful, I adapted myself. I thought that I am ther…
LGBT Identity and Online New Media
Preface Introduction, Christopher Pullen Part I: Active Youth 1.The Murder of Lawrence King and LGBT Online Stimulations of Narrative Copresence, Christopher Pullen 2.A YouTube of One's Own?: Coming Videos as Rhetorical Action Jonathan Alexander & Elizabeth Losh 3.YouTube Courtship: The Private Ins and Public Outs of Chris and Nickas, Damon Lindler Lazzara 4.Virtually Supportive: Self-Disclosure Of Minority Sexualities Through Online Social Netwo…
LGBT identity & online new media
Heroic gay characters in popular film: Tragic determination, and the everyday
This essay discusses gay identity and notions of character construction relating to the concept of tragic determination in media representations. Issues of adaptation and the significance of the Dionysian and Apollonian drives within tragedy (relating to Nietzsche's foundational work) are explored. A key concept is the examination of tensions between civic usefulness and emotive potential. Through an examination of Alan Turing's disavowal as a ga…
LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media
Offering a critical introduction into LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) transnational identity in the media, this book examines performances and representations within documentary and fict
Gay Identity, New Storytelling and the Media
Rob Cover, Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives
Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide
Media Responses to Queer Youth Suicide: Trauma, Therapeutic Discourse and Co-Presence
Ana Douglass and Thomas A. Vogler (2003) tell us: While individual trauma confers individual identity, the function of trauma as a ‘social glue’ holds groups together on the basis of ethnicity, gender, race, sexual orientation, disease or handicap. (p. 12) These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Queer Youth and Media Cultures
This collection explores the representation and performance of queer youth in media cultures, primarily examining TV, film and online media. Offering an interdisciplinary focus and presenting a range of contributions from authors based in and/or writing about the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Turkey, India, Scandinavia and Africa, it is organized under three sections: 'Performance and Culture', 'Histories and Commodity,' and 'Tran…
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television
Examines the emergence of gay male and female heterosexual alliances within contemporary mediaExploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the 'hetero media gaze' and the way it contextualizes sexual diversity and gender identity. Offering both an historical foundation and a rigorous conceptual fra…
Transpeople in Performative Documentary: Self‐Representation, Citizenship, and Transparency
This paper explores the representation of transgendered identity within filmic and televisual documentary, focusing on issues of sexuality, gender and youth. A conceptual framework is established, examining historical foundations, documentary theory, and the aesthetics of domesticity. There are 8 major case studies – There is Something About Miriam (2004), My Dad Diane (2005), Trantasia (2007), She’s a Boy I Knew (2007), Lucy: Teenage Transsexual…
Queer Male Bodies and the Cinematic Liminal Beach
The ‘Undocuqueer’ movement and DREAMers: Activist online space and the affective queer body
This article explores the advent of the ‘Undocuqueer’ movement, an activist social network that represents the life chances of undocumented queer youth migrants in the United States, arguing for acceptance, equality and integration, with a particular focus on needs for education. Considering the promise of the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (a possible legislative act that would offer education to undocumented migrant yout…
It started with a kiss' EastEnders and subversion from within: Domestic 'queer' star persona and British social realism
This paper explores the performativity of the domestic queer star persona in soap opera, foregrounding the historical presence of Michael Cashman, the LGBTQ+ rights activist, who appeared as the first queer character in EastEnders , in 1986. Cashman's later cameo roles in 2016 and 2022 are also explored, alongside evaluating the appearance of other openly gay actors taking on queer roles in EastEnders , demonstrating the potential for 'subversion…
"Were in this together" - NGO advocacy and LGBTQ+ asylum claimants: Intimate/care citizenship as co-presence and imagined equality
This paper explores the work of regional NGO organisations in the UK that explicitly support LGBTQ + asylum claimants, framing the testimonials of both service providers and service users, in considering issues of co-presence, and imagined equality, that may be experienced between the parties. While framing the cultural and political environment at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, and critiquing citizenship as a purely hegemonic nationalistic c…
Sociology (16 works) · Art (13 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Queer (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works)