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Queering Conventions:
Temporality in LGBT Youth Narratives on Glee
Raffi Sarkissian
@rsark | raffisar@usc.edu
University of Southern California
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
PCA/ACA 2013
Character Development
Serial Narrative
Time Slot
Mobile Music
Stereotypes
“The revelation of homosexuality is the only story that
can be told about it… Precisely because homosexuality is
not assumed but is itself the secret that produces
narrative complication, the disclosure of homosexuality
is continually substituted for any possible narrative,
romantic or otherwise, predicated on such a sexuality.”
- Dennis Allen
Kurt
One Life to Live
Desperate Housewives
Greek
Ugly Betty My So-Called Life
Masculine/Effeminate
Out/Closeted Binary
Character Development
Serial Narrative
• Queer as not an isolated occurrence
• Part of a larger system/Systemic problem
• Varied forms of affect, range of experience
• Lingering negative affect in place of resolution
• Still espousing hope
“Prom Queen”
Television’s Temporality
“More than any other medium or screen based form, it is television that can fully
embrace the capacity to engage with the concept of queer temporality, quite
simply because television’s ontology is temporal.”- Gary Needham
10:00 PM time slot as “the domain of the marginal audience: the
un-familial, the singleton, the childless couple, queers.”
“Teenage Dream”
Mobile Music
“You think I’m pretty without any make-up on
You think I’m funny when I tell the punch line wrong
I know you get me, so I let me walls come down, down”
(downloadable version only)
“My sister will be suspicious
(Gosh, your lips look delicious)
My brother will be there at the door
(Waves upon a tropical shore)
My maiden aunt’s mind is vicious
(Ooh, your lips are delicious)
But maybe just a cigarette more
(Never such a blizzard before)”
Thanks!
Raffi Sarkissian
@rsark | raffisar@usc.edu
University of Southern California
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
PCA/ACA 2013

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Pca glee sarkissian

  • 1. Queering Conventions: Temporality in LGBT Youth Narratives on Glee Raffi Sarkissian @rsark | raffisar@usc.edu University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism PCA/ACA 2013
  • 3. Stereotypes “The revelation of homosexuality is the only story that can be told about it… Precisely because homosexuality is not assumed but is itself the secret that produces narrative complication, the disclosure of homosexuality is continually substituted for any possible narrative, romantic or otherwise, predicated on such a sexuality.” - Dennis Allen
  • 4. Kurt One Life to Live Desperate Housewives Greek Ugly Betty My So-Called Life Masculine/Effeminate Out/Closeted Binary
  • 6. Serial Narrative • Queer as not an isolated occurrence • Part of a larger system/Systemic problem • Varied forms of affect, range of experience • Lingering negative affect in place of resolution • Still espousing hope
  • 8. Television’s Temporality “More than any other medium or screen based form, it is television that can fully embrace the capacity to engage with the concept of queer temporality, quite simply because television’s ontology is temporal.”- Gary Needham 10:00 PM time slot as “the domain of the marginal audience: the un-familial, the singleton, the childless couple, queers.”
  • 10. Mobile Music “You think I’m pretty without any make-up on You think I’m funny when I tell the punch line wrong I know you get me, so I let me walls come down, down” (downloadable version only) “My sister will be suspicious (Gosh, your lips look delicious) My brother will be there at the door (Waves upon a tropical shore) My maiden aunt’s mind is vicious (Ooh, your lips are delicious) But maybe just a cigarette more (Never such a blizzard before)”
  • 11. Thanks! Raffi Sarkissian @rsark | raffisar@usc.edu University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism PCA/ACA 2013