"What was I made for?" - En queerteoretisk kritisk diskursanalys av HBTQIA+ representation i filmen Barbie (2023)
(2024) GNVK22 20241Department of Gender Studies
- Abstract
- This bachelor thesis explores the lack of LGBTQIA+ representation in last year‘s highest grossing movie; Barbie (2023). The aim of the paper is to analyze the movie through its textual, discursive and social practices by using Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis as well as queertheory. I analyze the movie’s hegemonic power structures regarding gender and sexuality expressions, as well as its exclusionary effects. The thesis combines theories of queer, representational and feminist work in order to uncover the underlying ideologies and how it shapes the movie’s representation. It focuses, mainly, on two characters: Allan and Weird Barbie, and how these are attributed queerness through different semiotics and in what ways this... (More)
- This bachelor thesis explores the lack of LGBTQIA+ representation in last year‘s highest grossing movie; Barbie (2023). The aim of the paper is to analyze the movie through its textual, discursive and social practices by using Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis as well as queertheory. I analyze the movie’s hegemonic power structures regarding gender and sexuality expressions, as well as its exclusionary effects. The thesis combines theories of queer, representational and feminist work in order to uncover the underlying ideologies and how it shapes the movie’s representation. It focuses, mainly, on two characters: Allan and Weird Barbie, and how these are attributed queerness through different semiotics and in what ways this affects their value. I come to the conclusion that (1) these characters are characterized as queer, (2) they suffer from that due to the movie’s hetero- and cisnormative core and (3) that the movie is constituted from and constitutes, as well as naturalize, postfeminist and neoliberal thought as part of mainstream film. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Följande kandidatuppsats utforskar bristen på HBTQIA+ representation i den högst inkomstbringande filmen 2023; Barbie. Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera filmen genom dess textuella, diskursiva och sociala praktiker genom att använda Norman Fairclough's kritiska diskursanalys såsom queerteori. Jag analyserar filmens hegemoniska maktstrukturer i relation till köns- och sexualitetsuttryck, samt dess uteslutande effekter. Denna uppsats kombinerar därmed teorier kring queerhet och representation med feministisk teoribildning för att synliggöra de underliggande ideologierna samt hur dessa formar filmens representation som sådan. Analysen fokuserar, främst, på två karaktärer: Allan och Weird Barbie, samt hur dessa tillskrivs queerhet genom... (More)
- Följande kandidatuppsats utforskar bristen på HBTQIA+ representation i den högst inkomstbringande filmen 2023; Barbie. Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera filmen genom dess textuella, diskursiva och sociala praktiker genom att använda Norman Fairclough's kritiska diskursanalys såsom queerteori. Jag analyserar filmens hegemoniska maktstrukturer i relation till köns- och sexualitetsuttryck, samt dess uteslutande effekter. Denna uppsats kombinerar därmed teorier kring queerhet och representation med feministisk teoribildning för att synliggöra de underliggande ideologierna samt hur dessa formar filmens representation som sådan. Analysen fokuserar, främst, på två karaktärer: Allan och Weird Barbie, samt hur dessa tillskrivs queerhet genom olika semiotik och på vilka sätt detta påverkar karaktärernas ansedda värde. Jag kommer fram till att (1) dessa karaktärer karaktäriseras som queera, (2) de lider av det på grund av filmens hetero- och cisnormativa kärna samt (3) att filmen konstituerar och konstitueras av, samt naturaliserar, postfeministiskt och nyliberalt tänkande som del av mainstream film. (Less)
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- author
- Bergman, Moa LU
- supervisor
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- Mia Liinason LU
- organization
- course
- GNVK22 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- HBTQIA+, Queer, Barbie-filmen (2023), Representation, Feminism LGBTQIA+, Barbie movie (2023)
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9177892
- date added to LUP
- 2024-11-27 12:53:00
- date last changed
- 2024-11-27 12:53:00
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