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Crossin' Somebody's Line: Gay Black Men in HBO Serial Dramas

Collins, Dustin L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1314810185

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2011, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Film Scholarship (Fine Arts).
This thesis examines the roles of gay black men in three HBO programs: Six Feet Under, The Wire, and True Blood. Whereas such characters have always been stereotyped and ridiculed in the past, HBO has made strides forward thanks to its commitment to being on the cutting edge of narrative television. Drawing on Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages, the thesis argues that Omar Little of The Wire, and to a lesser extent Lafayette Reynolds of True Blood, add new dimensions of representation by presenting their queerness as an assemblage of diverse factors, rather than an intersection of discrete categories. Keith Charles of Six Feet Under is presented as a counterexample - a positive representation, but safer and less groundbreaking than those who came after.
Louis-Georges Schwartz, PhD (Advisor)
Ofer Eliaz, PhD (Committee Member)
Gary Holcomb, PhD (Committee Member)
73 p.
African American Studies; African Americans; American Studies; Black Studies; Film Studies; Gender Studies; Mass Media; Performing Arts
queer theory; queer black studies; televisual studies; HBO; The Wire; True Blood; Six Feet Under; assemblage; queer; Omar Little, Lafayette Reynolds, Keith Charles

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  • Collins, D. L. (2011). Crossin' Somebody's Line: Gay Black Men in HBO Serial Dramas [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1314810185

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Collins, Dustin. Crossin' Somebody's Line: Gay Black Men in HBO Serial Dramas. 2011. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1314810185.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Collins, Dustin. "Crossin' Somebody's Line: Gay Black Men in HBO Serial Dramas." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1314810185

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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