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

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

Bibliographic Data

ID5682199
AuthorsAllison Moore (0000-0002-5506-4584, Edge Hill University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume11
Issue3
Pages299-314
Publication date2016-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1749602016662549
OpenAlexW2512818238
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited20

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

Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Flesh · Lesbian · Literature · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Theology · Toleration · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology