Love's Lesbian Refrain of Feeling: "Bette and Tina" and the Subversion of Heterosexual Affect

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Cefai, Sarah (2015) Love's Lesbian Refrain of Feeling: "Bette and Tina" and the Subversion of Heterosexual Affect. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 28. ISSN 1555-9998

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Type of Research:	Article
Creators:	Cefai, Sarah
Description:	This essay claims that the incorporation of a cultural spectrum of reflexive spectatorship into the YouTube viewing experience modified the cadence of the story that The L Word tells and variously reoriented the show both around and away from the theme of lesbian subjectification. In particular, the change in cadence brought about by fans' YouTube viewing is interpreted here as a lesbian 'refrain of feeling' that subverts the heterosexual properties ascribed to the show by its normative media context
Official Website:	http://www.rhizomes.net/issue28/cefai.html
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company:	Department of English, Bowling Green State University
Your affiliations with UAL:	Colleges > London College of Communication
Date:	1 March 2015
Related Websites:	http://www.rhizomes.net/index.html, http://www.rhizomes.net/issue28/index.html
Related Websites:	http://www.rhizomes.net/index.html http://www.rhizomes.net/issue28/index.ht...
Date Deposited:	12 Jul 2017 12:24
Last Modified:	19 Feb 2026 11:39
Item ID:	11484
URI:	https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/11484
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