Writing sexual identity onto the small screen

This chapter examines how the term ‘LGBT’ is inscribed onto the screen in mainstream news and current affairs programming in Japan. Analysis of captioning and flip-cards illustrates how the term ‘LGBT’ is visualized to augment the hyper-visibility of ‘sexual minorities’. Mediatized hyper-visibility, however, is produced alongside corporate expansion into lucrative ‘rainbow markets’ and a proliferation of political discourses pertaining to LGBT rights. Histories of representations and advocacy for LGBT issues and rights are rendered invisible within this process. The chapter illustrates how a critical examination of text in the media offers one way to analyze complex citational practices in which discourses of tolerance/acceptance and in/visibility become entangled

Aesthetics · Art · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology

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