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In Animated Queerness: LGBTQIA+ Representation in Animated Media , scholars from different fields come together to examine the ways and mechanisms animated films represent, suppress, encode, and celebrate queer narratives. This edited volume traces LGBTQIA+ animated audiovisual works across multiple decades, genres, and media platforms, while it explores implicit and explicit representation, fan creativity and intervention, corporate and social censorship, and global circulation. The volume is divided into four parts. Part I includes historical and transnational approaches that highlight the queer legacies of creators such as Tove Jansson and Kunihiko Ikuhara. Part II examines how audiences use fan-made content and interpretative techniques to change canonical narratives. Part III analyzes global politics of representation, including censorship and intersectionality. Finally, Part IV studies the ways contemporary animated audiovisual works experiment with queer futurities, posthumanism, and alternative temporalities. In bringing these essays together, this book argues that animation provides a fruitful space for creating queer worlds in which characters, storylines, and audiences perform fluid identities and imagine new modes of connection and empathy.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: Mapping Queer Animation
Sotiris Petridis (Hellenic Open University, Greece)Part I: Legacies and Lineages: Queer Histories in Animated Worlds1. Rehoming the Inner Queer Child: Queer Repatriation and the Animated Moomin Universe
Alexandra Sanchez (Ghent University, Belgium)2. Everyone Can Be a Prince: The Queer Legacy of Kunihiko Ikuhara in Western Children's Animation
Alessandra Richetto (University of Turin, Italy)3. Queering the Muppets
Sarah E. S. Sinwell (University of Utah, USA)Part II: Fandoms, Subversions, and Queer Readings4. From Sea Monster to Gay Symbol: Analyzing
Luca and Its Queer Reception Within Pixar's Brand Community
Sotiris Petridis (Hellenic Open University, Greece)5.
Coraline: The Horror of Heteronormativity
Sarah DelMaramo (Illinois State University, USA)6. Make Earth Gay Again: How
Steven Universe Rocked the Small Screen and Shattered Narratives of Compulsory Cisgender Identity
Olivia Vogt (University of Lapland, Finland)7. "That Might Make You Weird, But It Also Makes You Awesome!" Queer Aesthetics and Gender Fluidity in
The Owl House and
Adventure Time Karyl Anne Fischer (Jefferson Community and Technical College, USA)Part III: Intersectional Identities and Politics of Animated Queerness8. Censoring Queerness: The Politics of Children's Media in Cameroon
Floribert Patrick C. Endong (University of Dschang, Cameroon)9. "Hey, Adora!": Queer Recognition and Queer Seeing in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Lulu Larcenciel (Brock University, Canada)10. Gay Pride and Marriage Equality in Xadia: Queer Lives in Netflix's
The Dragon Prince Aidan Norrie (University Campus North Lincolnshire, UK)Part IV : New Frontiers: Queerness, and the Contemporary Animation11.
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Queerness, Posthumanism, and the Intersections of Identity
Dalila Forni (University of L'Aquila, Italy)12. Queerness and Social Awareness in Nimona's Cinematic Universe
Despoina Triantafyllidou (Aristotle University, Greece)13. Queering Exploration: The Strange and the Familiar in Disney's
Strange World Anupom Kumar Hazarika (Cotton University, India)Notes on Contributors Index
About the author
Sotiris Petridis is an adjunct professor of Film Studies at Hellenic Open University, Greece. His research interests are about film and television genres, screenwriting theory and practice, audiovisual rights, viral marketing, and the new ways of audiovisual promotion. He is a filmmaker and a member of both the European and Greek Film Academy.
