They won't : analyzing queerbaiting and compulsory heterosexuality in popular television.

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dc.contributor.advisorHahner, Leslie Ann.
dc.creatorScott, Lucia Jeana, 1994-
dc.creator.orcid0000-0001-7888-8079
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T13:53:10Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T13:53:10Z
dc.date.created2019-05
dc.date.issued2019-05-01
dc.date.submittedMay 2019
dc.date.updated2019-12-04T13:53:11Z
dc.description.abstractQueerbaiting has become an increasingly common practice in entertainment media. Television shows contain romantic and sexual subtext between two characters of the same gender without these two characters ever becoming involved in the narrative. This baits queer audiences into believe that such a show will offer them proper representation without ever delivering more than substandard representation. Scholars in the field of rhetoric, and in general, have left this phenomenon woefully underexamined. Using close reading and tropological analysis, I analyze Rizzoli and Isles, Supernatural, and Stranger Things as three instances of queerbaiting that assist in operationally defining queerbaiting, illustrating the impact of the practice, and finally modify popular understandings of queerbaiting to be more inclusive of gender identity. Adrienne Rich’s theory of compulsory heterosexuality provides the best explanation for why queerbaiting happens and can offer new ways to analyze these texts to uncover queerbaiting when it occurs.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2104/10716
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.accessrightsWorldwide access
dc.subjectRhetoric. Queer theory. Queerbaiting. Compulsory heterosexuality. Close reading. Devil terms.
dc.titleThey won't : analyzing queerbaiting and compulsory heterosexuality in popular television.
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentBaylor University. Dept. of Communication.
thesis.degree.grantorBaylor University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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