Bridget Kies
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Bromance in the 21st/23rd centuries?
Hi Deanna, Thanks for reading and citing my article. I see your point about the possibilities for Spock's sexuality, that perhaps the matter is not about whether he expresses hetero- or homosexuality but that he expresses sexuality at all. This is an ... -
But did you ever see the Magnum PI crossover?
Murder, She Wrote is one of my all-time favorite series, and for me it is so much less about whodunnit and more about appreciating Jessica's charming combination of grace, kindness, and intelligence. Building off Gabriel's comment, I wonder if y ... -
Timely
This post feels especially timely. All of our posts this week addresssed themes and media we are seeing revisited in 2016, but yours especially calls attention to the ways in which discourses on economic policy so often mask reality. I'm thinking her ... -
Queerbaiting?
Gabriel, after reading something about queerbaiting in contemporary dramas, I wonder if you and I might think about this concept in relation to 1980s domestic sitcoms with alternative families. While we didn't use that term then, and I'd argue p ... -
Hi Zach, I’m sorry I didn’t
Hi Zach, I'm sorry I didn't see your comment TWO YEARS AGO! Thanks for giving me some different ways to think about the relationship between television and society. Since I've posted this piece, I've expanded my study to consider how t ... -
The poster boy of homonormativity
Gabriel, I'm interested in this notion of nostalgia that you say the film works to evince, especially when we think about the layers of history and memory at work here. The 1980s characters Ned and Felix flashing back to the carefree pre-AIDS days, b ... -
Nancy Reagan and Hillary Clinton and AIDS Nostalgia
Following Nancy Reagan's memorial and Hillary Clinton's terrible gaffe about the Reagans' AIDS legacy yesterday, I wanted to revisit your post. It strikes me as bizarrely timely, but I wanted to figure out what it was more than just the the ... -
Queerness and Domesticity?
I'm struck by your categorization of queerness here, since what we see is a scene of performed domesticity. Is it queer because it is purely performative then? As you say, we are supposed to chuckle at their performance, but don't we also venera ... -
Thanks for your comment,
Thanks for your comment, Molly. I'll be sure to check out the sketch from Jimmy Fallon. I didn't have much space here to really develop my argument about Fuller House's regressive politics. I especially attribute this to an interview with C ... -
You make a good point about
You make a good point about the location of the series, Gabriel. In many ways, Full House would have been more believable in the Midwest. Mr. Belvedere, of course, was in many ways coded as gay, though this queerness is rendered "okay" through h ...