Queer and Mainstream: Tracing Heartstopper’s Reception via Digital Tools

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Marta Boni
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/93b7ef64.d0e0bbeb

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Netflix’s Heartstopper (2022) raises a paradox for queer television: does the series present, radically, a queer utopia, or does it merely serve commercial imperatives? Exploring this phenomenon with the help of digital tools, I will put forward a methodological discussion centered on the need of uncertainty as a core feature of the contemporary emotional structure, as well as a crucial caveat for any foray into the analysis of television.

Author Biography

Marta Boni, University of Montreal

Marta Boni is an associate professor in the Department of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Montreal. Her work covers theoretical and methodological problems linked to serial phenomena and their transformations in the contemporary panorama of digital cultures: TV series, transmedia, worldbuilding, and queer television. Along with various articles and book chapters on contemporary TV, she published Romanzo Criminale: Transmedia and Beyond (2013), edited World Building: Transmedia, Fans, Industries (2017), Formes et plateformes de la télévision à l’ère du numérique (2020), Intervalles sériels (with T. Carrier-Lafleur and F. Khazoom, 2021), and Perdre Pied. Le principe d’incertitude dans les séries (forthcoming 2023). 

Audiovisual Data: Data-Driven Perspectives for Media Studies. 13th Media Mutations International Conference

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Audiovisual Data: Data-Driven Perspectives for Media Studies. 13th Media Mutations International Conference

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125-140

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July 10, 2023

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Conference Proceedings
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Boni, M. (2023). Queer and Mainstream: Tracing Heartstopper’s Reception via Digital Tools. In G. Avezzù & M. Rocchi (Eds.), Audiovisual Data: Data-Driven Perspectives for Media Studies. 13th Media Mutations International Conference (pp. 125-140). Media Mutations Publishing. https://doi.org/10.21428/93b7ef64.d0e0bbeb