Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Chapter 3. Coming out differently: Making queer youth known in Scandinavian screen fiction
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5801-1234
Responsible organisation
2023 (English)In: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in Scandinavia: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multiplatform Era / [ed] P.M Jensen, E. N. Redvall, & C.L Christensen, Nordicom, University of Gothenburg , 2023, p. 43-60Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Posing the question of how Scandinavian screen fiction makes queer adolescence known, this chapter provides an analysis of how young audiences are addressed with issues of queerness in Scandinavian screen media produced for youth. Combining queer theory and genre studies of youth fiction in film and television, the chapter analyses the representation of the coming-out story: a key trope in queer youth narratives. The chapter offers a close analysis of two ostensibly different youth screen media texts that nevertheless share some significant representational strategies: the hugely successful Swedish youth film Fucking Åmål [Show Me Love] and the lesser known small Danish youth drama series Puls [Pulse]. The analysis explores how Scandinavian youth screen media produces knowledge of queer youth by negotiating and challenging conventional narrative representations of coming out through thematic engagement with stifling normativity, characters that embody queer happiness, and open endings that accentuate potential and possibility.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Nordicom, University of Gothenburg , 2023. p. 43-60
Keywords [en]
Scandinavian youth fiction, youth films, youth drama series, queer representation, coming out narrative
National Category
Media Studies
Research subject
Media
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-12916DOI: 10.48335/9789188855817-3ISBN: 978-91-88855-80-0 (print)ISBN: 978-91-88855-81-7 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:norden-12916DiVA, id: diva2:1806878
Available from: 2023-10-25 Created: 2023-10-24 Last updated: 2023-10-24

Open Access in DiVA

Fulltext(300 kB)170 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 300 kBChecksum SHA-512
837fc8fa90b6f6bc30f975be3fbb624d410463cab0009845025d729a39945343df2436596d7048904bd89c802f2b374aa657b628ccf1d69d109a3c1361e6aeb9
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

Other links

Publisher's full textGo to publisherPurchase print copyGo to full book

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Lysne, Anders
Media Studies

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 170 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

doi
isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 524 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf