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Not My Queer: Queer Representation In Contemporary Italian Serial Television, Julia Heim
Not My Queer: Queer Representation In Contemporary Italian Serial Television, Julia Heim
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Contemporary Italian television, like many national televisions, has entered a period in which the relationships the producers and consumers of televisual content are increasingly indistinguishable. In this age of media convergence the new participants of this medium work across platforms to actively engage, consume, create, and recreate both televisual content and our understanding of the medium. These new relationships require a new understanding of the semiotic and discursive changes taking place in television so that we may reconceptualize the contemporary interplay between media and society.
This dissertation maps out a new understanding of the televisual economy through an elaboration of …