‘Time for all of us to Walk into the Sunshine Together’: Glee, the same-sex wedding spectacle and the imagining of queer futures
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- qv168
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture: Something Old, Something New
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138586239
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter speaks to the contemporary inclusion of same-sex weddings in marriage legislation, and the symbolic social shift this indicates. Same-sex marriage indicates a significant reorganisation of social norms and understandings around marriage and family, and thus requires focused critical attention. In drawing together the distinct frameworks of queer and post-feminism, McNicholas Smith’s analysis explores both the meaningful possibilities opened up in this shift and the limitations of its inclusion narrative and applies a gendered lens to the same-sex marriage debate.
This is a complex time, offering cause for both celebration and concern, and requiring research informed and sustained by critique. McNicholas Smith’s analysis navigates the complexities of what is signified in the ‘progressive’ move towards same-sex marriage, as well as the increased visibility of feminism in popular culture. The discussion in the chapter thus speaks to contemporary concerns in queer/feminist theorising, as well as broader debates in sociology and media and cultural studies. McNicholas Smith’s analytic method draws together concerns with social and legislative shifts, media representations, and fan/audience interventions.
The chapter is included in an edited collection that provides wide-ranging and thorough analyses of the continued symbolic and material significance of weddings in contemporary socio-political and national contexts. The varied nature of the analyses situate the edited collection, along with McNicholas Smith’s contribution, in interdisciplinary fields, with particular interest for television studies, film studies, media studies, sociology and gender studies.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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