2007
DOI: 10.1353/cj.2007.0045
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Having it All Ways: The Tourist, the Traveler, and the Local in The L Word

Abstract: One of the most effective strategies of the lesbian-themed serial drama The L Word has been a double one: to produce sex scenes that ensure appeal for a premium-paying straight audience, while offering specific pleasures for queer viewers "in the know." Analyzing scenes from the show's first and second seasons, I will demonstrate how the hit Showtime series makes us all tourists, through the enticement of lesbian sex (a spectacle of attraction for straight and queer viewers alike) and through the wonderment of… Show more

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“…In this article it will be used to understand which subject positions are offered by the televised text (Talbot 2007), in ways that has similarities to the literary term reader formations (Bennett 1985), which offers a poststructural view on texts as open for different readings and reading positions. Also, queer theorists who are critically engaging with spectatorship theory (Mulvey 1975), are helpful for understanding the positionings and interpellations performed by media texts (Aaron 2003;Moore 2007).…”
Section: Method Theories Concepts and Outlinementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this article it will be used to understand which subject positions are offered by the televised text (Talbot 2007), in ways that has similarities to the literary term reader formations (Bennett 1985), which offers a poststructural view on texts as open for different readings and reading positions. Also, queer theorists who are critically engaging with spectatorship theory (Mulvey 1975), are helpful for understanding the positionings and interpellations performed by media texts (Aaron 2003;Moore 2007).…”
Section: Method Theories Concepts and Outlinementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Las mujeres homosexuales de The L Word tienen vidas complejas y excitantes, son de clase media alta y viven el sexo libremente. Su impacto y novedad, de hecho, ha motivado la reflexión de investigadores de distintas sensibilidades (Campanello, 2007;Farr & Degroult, 2008;Herman, 2005;Moore, 2007;Moore, D., 2009;Wolfe, 2009 La serie se escogió porque ofrecía hasta 70 capítulos, doblados al español, para crear/seleccionar los estímulos adecuados: tenía variedad de personajes femeninos homosexuales (y algún heterosexual, aunque casi siempre secundario), así como de peripecias a las que se enfrentaban. Los personajes principales son mayoritariamente lesbianas que desempeñan labores profesionales reconocidas socialmente y de alto estatus (decanas, productoras de televisión, periodistas, tenistas, estilistas, escritoras, profesoras).…”
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“…Las mujeres homosexuales de The L Word tienen vidas complejas y excitantes, son de clase media alta y viven el sexo libremente. Su impacto y novedad, de hecho, ha motivado la reflexión de investigadores de distintas sensibilidades (Campanello, 2007;Farr & Degroult, 2008;Herman, 2005;Moore, 2007;Moore, D., 2009;Wolfe, 2009 Las escenas que formaron parte de las dos historias usadas para esta investigación se sucedían a lo largo de distintos capítulos de las seis temporadas de la serie. El propósito capital de la selección (de historias y escenas) era que permitieran obtener narrativas coherentes, con planteamiento, nudo y desenlace y mantenimiento de tensión dramática, al tiempo que presentar un tema susceptible de provocar opiniones y reacciones emocionales intensas.…”
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“…She also discusses femme or lipstick lesbians as both hyper-visible and at the same time not seen as real lesbians in the series' narrative. Candace Moore (2007) has analyzed the viewing positions offered by The L-word narrative in a reading which critically converses with film spectatorship theory, seeing these as inviting a tourist gaze. These studies are all highly relevant for my own project.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%