Essays about: "the queer gaze"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words the queer gaze.

1. 1. My Burning Glances : The Male and queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

   Author : Karin Faxén Sporrong; [2024]
   Keywords : The male gaze; the queer gaze; Edgar Allan Poe; Berenice: A Tale ; The Man that was Used Up ; The Man of the Crowd ; Den manliga blicken; den queera blicken; Edgar Allan Poe; Berenice ; Den förbrukade mannen ; Mannen i Mängden ;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to show the narrator’s use of the male and the queer gaze in three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe: “Berenice: A Tale” (1835), “The Man that was Used Up: A Tale of the Late Bugaboo and Kickapoo Campaign” (1839) and ”The Man of the Crowd” (1845). Through close reading of the stories, I show how the different gazes work, how they are used in the stories and what they lead to. READ MORE

3. 2. Fighting Games under the Queer Gaze : An analysis on the characters of Street Fighter V

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

   Author : Mio Wilund; [2022]
   Keywords : computer games; male gaze; queer theory; character design; gender in video games; gaze theory; datorspel; manlig blick; queerteori; karaktärsdesign; kön i datorspel; blickteori;

   Abstract : Critical examination on the topic of gender representation, sexualisation, video gamecharacters and their designs is not untreated ground, and has been analysed using variousmethods; qualitatively, quantitatively (Tompkins & et. al., 2020), and textually. READ MORE

4. 3. Mass Effect: A utopia free from queer people?

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för speldesign

   Author : Jasper Falk; Theo Flejmer; [2022]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : A small set of qualitative interviews were held to explore the thoughts and choices of queer players of the Mass Effect trilogy. The participants‘ discussions and answers were transcribed and analyzed with the support of texts about compulsory heteronormativity, queer theory, Huizinga’s magic circle, as well as the charmed circle. READ MORE

5. 4. TO PERFORM, OR NOT TO PERFORM? A queer reading of feminist theatre performances in Istanbul

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Marina Farima; [2020-11-30]
   Keywords : feminist politics; feminist theatre; Istanbul; performativity; queer reading;

   Abstract : Feminist theatre, I opine, is a tremendously valuable tool that could help individuals to gaze politically at their own lives. This thesis is compiled by an exploratory research into the theatrical stage of Istanbul aiming to analyse three plays with a queer lens as means to uncover the feminist politics that transforms the normative norms of both the theatre and the society. READ MORE

6. 5. SCREAM OF LOVE - a search for a body that is collective and free

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

   Author : Indra Linderoth; [2016-06-17]
   Keywords : vibrations; voice; listening; performative writing; artistic research; queer position; femininity; dissonance; displacement; gentrification;

   Abstract : This is an experiment, several tryouts and me searching for vibrations. Vibrations in between the text and you as a reader; in between my body and an other (your?) body; in fear of loosing and a fear of not daring to let go and get lost. READ MORE