The (Temporary)
Queering of Japanese TV
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3623670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen D Miller (0000-0002-8804-7289, University of Colorado Boulder, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 83-109 |
| Publication date | 2000-11-28 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j082v39n03_03 |
| PMID | 11133143 |
| OpenAlex | W2321732036 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
One of the primary texts of the "out" queer cinema of Japan is the television serial D s kai, first aired in 1993. Unlike Western television shows positing queer characters, D s kai presents its gay characters without apology or excuses, and as leads rather than as colorful appendages. At the same time, however, the show filters gay eroticism through the (hetero)normative mode of serial melodrama, at once pushing the boundaries of national permissiveness while normalizing and homogenizing homosexuality by rendering it within a conventional form
Art · Epistemology · Eroticism · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Literature · Movie theater · Normative · Queer · Rendering (computer graphics · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2020 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |