Date of Award
2015-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Communication
Advisor(s)
Thomas E. Ruggiero
Abstract
MTV's popular television series, Teen Wolf (2011), has amassed a large online following of fans that create their own queer narratives through fan-fiction, subverting the show's hegemonic heteronormativity. Through a textual thematic analysis of Teen Wolf, this case study illustrates how online fandoms can subvert hegemony through queer readings of literary characters, resisting the dominant heteronormativity on network television. This article argues that rearticulating the showâ??s narratives into queer readings functions as a form of LGBT resistance, effectively counteracting the heteronormativity and hegemony portrayed on screen. This study examines how Teen Wolf approaches queer content, including homoeroticism and LGBT themes as comical relief, examined through queer theory, Hall's model of Encoding/Decoding and Bakhtin's literary mode of subversion known as the carnivalesque.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2015
File Size
63 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Joshua J. Espinoza
Recommended Citation
Espinoza, Joshua J., "Re-Examining Resistance: Fan-Produced Queer Readings and Teen Wolf" (2015). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 1038.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/1038
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Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Digital Communications and Networking Commons, Social Media Commons