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Black Queer TV: Reparative Viewing and the Sociopolitical Questions of Our Now

Spears, Tobias L
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4115-6178
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1640555887919389

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies.
This dissertation is rooted in the general question: How do contemporary TV series featuring Black queer and trans representation highlight and address sociopolitical questions often found circulating within queer and cultural studies? Employing three programs, The Prancing Elites Project (2015), Empire (2015), and Pose (2018), this study argues that recent upticks in Black queer characters on TV provide room to move beyond traditional analyses often predicated on critical suspicion to instead engender readings revealing themes related to Black futurity, worldmaking, and coalition building, prominent topics within the fields of queer and cultural studies. Building from both Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s articulation of reparative reading and prior scholarship often critical of Black queer televisual representation, this dissertation’s interventions are both theoretical and methodological, presenting a recalibrated approach to gleaning the richness in Black queer media. Black Queer TV: Reparative Viewing and the Sociopolitical Questions of Our Now invigorates and broadens critical scholarship on media through nuancing programs depicting a range of Black queer people’s represented experiences.
Bill Albertini, PhD (Advisor)
Vibha Bhalla, PhD (Other)
Susana Peña, PhD (Committee Member)
Clayton Rosati, PhD (Committee Member)
223 p.
African American Studies; American Studies; Black Studies; Economic Theory; Gender Studies
Black Queer Studies; Television Studies; Neoliberalism; Queer Worldmaking; Sexuality; Gender; Futurity; The Prancing Elites; Empire; Pose; Media Studies; Cultural Studies

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  • Spears, T. L. (2022). Black Queer TV: Reparative Viewing and the Sociopolitical Questions of Our Now [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1640555887919389

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Spears, Tobias. Black Queer TV: Reparative Viewing and the Sociopolitical Questions of Our Now. 2022. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1640555887919389.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Spears, Tobias. "Black Queer TV: Reparative Viewing and the Sociopolitical Questions of Our Now." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1640555887919389

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