Essays about: "Elizabeth Hythova"

Found 1 essay containing the words Elizabeth Hythova.

  1. 1. Rainbow-Washing on Screen: Perceptions of 21st Century Popular Media Representations of Queer Identities in a Comparison between Sweden and Czechia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi; Lunds universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Elizabeth Hythova; [2022]
    Keywords : queer representation; stereotypes in popular media; social constructionism; heteronormativity; othering of minorities; queer theory; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how queer people perceive queer representations in popular media (film and TV) produced in recent years and how such representations affect queer people’s identity and self-perception, as well as how they mirror and reproduce heteronormative understandings of queerness. A cultural comparison between Czechia and Sweden in perceptions of heteronormativity and queer representations and media is also made. READ MORE