The Media's Reception of Queer Images in Music Videos in the 1980s and 1990s

Date of Award

2007

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Johnson, Robert

Keywords

Queer Theory, Popular Culture, Boy George, Music Videos, MTV

Area of Concentration

History

Abstract

This thesis examines the media's reception of queer images, including drag, androgyny, and homosexuality, in music videos in the 1980s and 1990s. Building from a Queer Theory framework of analysis, based on the writings of Judith Butler and Judith Halberstam, this thesis tracks the media's discourse regarding the gender presentations of four artists, Annie Lennox, Boy George, Andy Bell, and George Michael. This examination demonstrates that the media's heterosexist responses unveil how gender maintained its binary based coherence, in the 1980s and 1990s.

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