CASE STUDY

1. What group of people or place you will be studying the representation of, and on which platform(s)?

I will be studying Homosexuals in Tv soap operas/Tv drama and the platform,broadcasting film/tv


2.why have u chosen this topic and why do you think it will be a rich area of study ?
I have chosen this topic as it is mainstream in the mass media and i am interested in researching different theorys in the topic.


3.Identify at least 3 media texts that you will use as your primary sources

• ugly betty
• eastenders
• brokeback mountain

4.List the theorists who are relevant for your study

• judith butler
• nick lacey

5.What have your chosen theorists written about your topic area?
A significant yet sometimes overlooked part of Butler's argument concerns the role of sex in the construction of "natural" or coherent gender and sexuality. Butler explicitly challenges biological accounts of binary sex, reconceiving the sexed body as itself culturally constructed by regulative discourse.The supposed obviousness of sex as a natural biological fact attests to how deeply its production in discourse is concealed. The sexed body, once established as a “natural” and unquestioned “fact,” is the alibi for constructions of gender and sexuality, unavoidably more cultural in their appearance, which can purport to be the just-as-natural expressions or consequences of a more fundamental sex. On Butler’s account, it is on the basis of the construction of natural binary sex that binary gender and heterosexuality are likewise constructed as natural.In this way, Butler claims that without a critique of sex as produced by discourse, the sex/gender distinction as a feminist strategy for contesting constructions of binary asymmetric gender and compulsory heterosexuality will be ineffective.