Frederik Dhaenens
Frederik Dhaenens (PhD) is a member of CIMS - Centre for Cinema and Media Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. He has a master degree in communication studies and a master degree in film and visual culture. His research focuses on queer theory, gay representation, popular culture, and in particular on television and popular music.
queer theory, queer representation, identity, cultural studies, popular culture, gender studies
Dhaenens, F. (2011). Gay representation, Queer Resistance, and the Small Screen: A reception study of gay representations among Flemish fans of contemporary television fiction. Gent: Academia Press.
Dewaele, A., Vincke, J., Cox, N., Dhaenens, F. (2009). Het discours van jongeren over man-vrouw rolpatronen en holebiseksualiteit. Over Flexen, players en metroseksuelen. Antwerpen: Steunpunt Gelijkekansenbeleid - consortium UA en Uhasselt.
Dhaenens, F. (2013, in press). The Fantastic Queer: Reading Gay Representations in Torchwood and True Blood as Articulations of Queer Resistance. Critical Studies in Media Communication.
Dhaenens, F. (2013). Teenage Queerness: Negotiating Heteronormativity in the Representation of Gay Teenagers in Glee. Journal of Youth Studies, 16(3): 304-317.doi: 10.1080/13676261.2012.718435.
Dhaenens, F. (2012). Reading Gays on the Small Screen: A Reception Study among Flemish Viewers of Queer Resistance in Contemporary Television Fiction. Javnost – The Public, 19(4): 57-72.
Dhaenens, F. (2012). Gay Male Domesticity on the Small Screen: Queer Representations of Gay Homemaking in Six Feet Under and Brothers & Sisters. Popular Communication, 10(3): 217-230.
Dhaenens, F. (2012). Queer Cuttings on YouTube: Re-Editing Soap Operas as a Form of Fan-Produced Queer Resistance. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15(4): 442-456.
Dhaenens, F. & Van Bauwel, S. (2012). The Good, the Bad or the Queer: Articulations of Queer Resistance in The Wire. Sexualities, 15(5/6): 702-717.
Van Bauwel, S.; Dhaenens, F., & Biltereyst, D. (2013). Queer gazing at the Popular: A Study on the Representational Strategies of Queer Representations in Popular Television Fiction. In A. N. Valdivia (Gen. Ed.) & S. R. Mazzarella (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of media studies. Vol. 3: Content and representation (pp. 226-239). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Dhaenens, F. & Van Bauwel, S. (2012). Queer Resistances in the Adult Animated Sitcom. Television & New Media, 13(2): 124-138.
De Ridder, S., Dhaenens, F. & Van Bauwel, S. (2011). Queer Theory and Change: Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Resistance and Subversion in Media Research on Gay and Lesbian Identities. Observatorio (OBS*), 5(2): 197-215.
Dhaenens, F., Biltereyst, D., & Van Bauwel, S. (2010). ‘Hollywood, resistance and transgressive queerness: re-reading Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), the Children's Hour (1961) and Advice & Consent (1962)’. In T. Krijnen, C. Alvares & S. Van Bauwel (Eds), Gendered transforamtions: Theory and practices on Gender and Media, (pp. 79-92). Bristol: Intellect.
Dhaenens, F., Van Bauwel, S., & Biltereyst, D. (2008). Slashing the Fiction of Queer Theory: Slash Fiction, Queer Reading, and Transgressing the Boundaries of Screen Studies, Representations, and Audiences. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 32(4): 335-347.
DISSERTATION:
Dhaenens, F. (2012). Gays on the Small Screen: A Queer Theoretical Study into Articulations of Queer Resistance in Contemporary Television Fiction. Ghent University.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Dhaenens, F. (2010). Wallowing in Sex. The Historical Journal for Radio, Film and Television, 30(2): 252-254.
Dhaenens, F. (2009) Screening Sex. Politics and Culture, (4).
Dhaenens, F. (2009). Queer Cinema in Europe. The Historical Journal for Radio, Film and Television, 29(4): 585-586
Dhaenens, F. (2008) Screened Out. Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall. Politics and Culture, (4).
PUBLIC OPINIONS:
De Ridder, S. & Dhaenens, F. (2011, November 25). Smakeloze schoktelevisie? Nee hoor! De Standaard.
Adriaens F. & Dhaenens, F. (2011, June 24). De heterowereld van de machoman. De Morgen.
Van Bauwel, S., Dhaenens, F. & De Ridder, S. (2011, January 15). “De VRT is belangrijk voor iedere Vlaming.” De Wereld Morgen.
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