I don't take orders from a lad wearing make-up

Zombie as queer metaphor in Dominic Mitchell’s In the Flesh

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5682199
AutoresAllison Moore (0000-0002-5506-4584, Edge Hill University, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume11
Fascículo3
Páginas299-314
Data de publicação2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1749602016662549
OpenAlexW2512818238
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas20

This article examines Dominic Mitchell's BBC Three's supernatural drama series, In the Flesh (2013), as a metaphor for contemporary lesbian and gay politics, which in recent years has followed a reformist agenda on the basis that lesbians and gay men are, what Andrew Sullivan (1996) has called, 'virtually normal'. However, it has been suggested by some queer theorists that being seen as virtually normal is not unproblematic, as it is predicated on a politics of toleration. Read as a metaphor for contemporary lesbian and gay politics, In the Flesh presents a warning of the uncritical acceptance of discourses of sexual progress

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