TY - BOOK ID - 11352634 TI - Queer Girls, Temporality and Screen Media : Not ‘Just a Phase’ PY - 2016 SN - 1137555971 113755598X 9781137555977 9781137555984 PB - London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Culture KW - Communication. KW - Motion pictures. KW - Motion picture acting. KW - Sociology. KW - Sex (Psychology). KW - Gender expression. KW - Gender identity. KW - Cultural and Media Studies. KW - Film Theory. KW - Media Studies. KW - Gender Studies. KW - Screen Performance. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Lesbianism in motion pictures. KW - Lesbianism on television. KW - Lesbians on television KW - Sex identity (Gender identity) KW - Sexual identity (Gender identity) KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Queer theory KW - Expression, Gender KW - Sex role KW - Psychology, Sexual KW - Sex KW - Sexual behavior, Psychology of KW - Sexual psychology KW - Sensuality KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Film acting KW - Moving-picture acting KW - Acting KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Communication, Primitive KW - Mass communication KW - Sociology KW - Cultural studies KW - Psychological aspects KW - History and criticism KW - Television KW - Motion pictures UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11352634 AB - This book takes up the queer girl as a represented and rhetorical figure within film, television and video. In 1987, Canada’s Degrassi Junior High featured one of TV’s first queer teen storylines. Contained to a single episode, it was promptly forgotten within both the series and popular culture more generally. Cut to 2016 – queer girls are now major characters in films and television series around the globe. No longer represented as subsidiary characters within forgettable storylines, queer girls are a regular feature of contemporary screen media. Analysing the terms of this newfound visibility, Whitney Monaghan provides a critical perspective on this, arguing that a temporal logic underpins many representations of queer girlhood. Examining an archive of screen texts that includes teen television series and teenpics, art-house, queer and independent cinemas as well as new forms of digital video, she expands current discourse on both queer representation and girls’ studies by looking at sexuality through themes of temporality. This book, the first full-length study of its kind, draws on concepts of boredom, nostalgia and transience to offer a new perspective on queer representation in contemporary screen media. ER -