Beyond the Straight and Narrow
“Long-fought cultural struggles persist over who gets to exist in our national imagination.”
2023•NR•1h 11m•Released
Documentary
How did the rise of LGBTQ visibility, political progress, and digital technologies in the 2000s come together to offer the abundance of complex queer and transgender representations we see today? Media scholar Katherine Sender shows how LGBTQ visibility and political progress have combined with new digital media technologies and television platforms to produce an increasingly complex range of queer and transgender representations.
Director
Katherine E Sender
Studio
Media Education Foundation
Production
Company
Media Education Foundation
Producer
Katherine E Sender
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