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The consequences of the television closet : It’s a Sin (Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) as a meditation on the presence and absence of queer lives on British television
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Wheatley, Helen (2022) The consequences of the television closet : It’s a Sin (Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) as a meditation on the presence and absence of queer lives on British television. European Journal of Cultural Studies . 136754942210971. doi:10.1177/13675494221097133
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221097133
Abstract
This short article teases out some of the ways that It’s a Sin ((Red Production Company for Channel 4/HBO Max, 2021) engages with television history. It explores how the series figures television viewing and television production in its diegesis, and makes some suggestions about the way that it represents some of the consequences of what we might call the ‘television closet’. This term refers to the relative absence of explicitly queer representations on British TV leading up to, and during, the period in which the series is set. The article proposes that It’s a Sin is acutely aware of the role that television played in the continuing stigmatisation of LGBT people in Britain well into the 1980s and the lack of information and scaremongering that characterised the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, revealing the acute consequences of the television closet which Russell T. Davies’ work more widely has sought to counteract.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater | ||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | It's a sin (Television program), Homosexuality on television, Gays in popular culture, Davies, Russell T. -- History and criticism, Gay men -- Drama, Sexual minorities -- Identity, Sex role in mass media | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Cultural Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||
| ISSN: | 1460-3551 | ||||
| Official Date: | 3 July 2022 | ||||
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| Article Number: | 136754942210971 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/13675494221097133 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2022 | ||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2022 | ||||
| Is Part Of: | 1 |
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