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Queer Spectralities and Untimely Subjects: Queer Ghost Hunters and Paranormal Reality Television
Canadian Journal of Film Studies ^ | Fall 2019 | Kevin Chabot

Posted on 05/27/2024 7:50:07 AM PDT by Angelino97

Queer Ghost Hunters (Stu Maddux, 2016-) in an independently-produced YouTube web series in which queer paranormal investigators set out to contact queer ghosts of the past.

The show stages an intervention within the paranormal reality television genre, critiquing the lack of queer content in popular shows such as Ghost Hunters.

Despite the routine investigations of prisons and mental asylums, sites that have historically functioned to oppress queer people, queer ghosts are not sought after in mainstream pa­ranormal reality TV, thereby rendering queer history and injustice invisible.

Queer Ghost Hunters aims to rectify this invisibility by attempting to contact queer ghosts and revealing the presence of lost pasts.

This article argues that Queer Ghost Hunters employs the seance as a queered historiographical methodology that emphasizes the haunted presence of absent histories. The show rejects the technophilic masculinity on display in shows like Ghost Hunters in favour of an affective encounter with the spectral.

In so doing, Queer Ghost Hunters resists a linear conception of time as progress, linking the temporal economies of the ghost and the queer—each rejecting the stability of linear, sequential progression in favour of an itinerant flow infused by a simultaneity of past, present, and future.

(Excerpt) Read more at jstor.org ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; lgbt; lgbtq; reprobates; transghosts
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What they're teaching in universities.
1 posted on 05/27/2024 7:50:07 AM PDT by Angelino97
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How about other special interest group ghosts like the ghosts of Hamas? I suggest making a lot more.


2 posted on 05/27/2024 7:59:09 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: Angelino97

“In so doing, Queer Ghost Hunters resists a linear conception of time as progress, linking the temporal economies of the ghost and the queer—each rejecting the stability of linear, sequential progression in favour of an itinerant flow infused by a simultaneity of past, present, and future.”

Hun? Whut?

(I must be too stupid to get this...)


3 posted on 05/27/2024 8:02:25 AM PDT by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: William of Barsoom

“In so doing, Queer Ghost Hunters resists a linear conception of time as progress, linking the temporal economies of the ghost and the queer—each rejecting the stability of linear, sequential progression in favour of an itinerant flow infused by a simultaneity of past, present, and future.”


He uses his tongue prettier than a twenty-dollar whore.


4 posted on 05/27/2024 8:02:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Angelino97

That is a bizarre abstract to have read in any journal.


5 posted on 05/27/2024 8:06:21 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Lack queer content in programing. What’s next, mandatory blowjobs backstage.??
This cannot continue. :(


6 posted on 05/27/2024 8:08:31 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: Angelino97

I can just imagine what that pitch meeting was like...


7 posted on 05/27/2024 8:09:57 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Angelino97

Can’t wait to see how they incorporate this development in next year’s Halloween haunted houses.


8 posted on 05/27/2024 8:19:12 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Angelino97

EVERYTHING homos ultimately do is about “hooking up” and sex without consequences

so its a grooming class.


9 posted on 05/27/2024 8:20:09 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: William of Barsoom

“I must be too stupid to get this”

not really ... these kinds of nonsensical sentences that are chock-a-block with the most fashionable adjectives, adverbs and nouns are what pass for PhD theses in U.S. universities these days ...


10 posted on 05/27/2024 8:20:15 AM PDT by catnipman (A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
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“How can we get some grant money for this paranormal research?”
“Wait....I got it”


11 posted on 05/27/2024 8:21:07 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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Lack queer content in programing. What’s next, mandatory blowjobs backstage.??

Many ghosts are lacking in genitalia. I don't know if they were born" that way or underwent surgery, but it seems a rich topic for study and discussion.


12 posted on 05/27/2024 8:27:15 AM PDT by Angelino97
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How wiil they know when a “queer” ghost? Will it be because it ass- blasts them? Or Wii the hunters experience a sudden “fullness” in their mouth?


13 posted on 05/27/2024 8:32:48 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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Phone typos!


14 posted on 05/27/2024 8:34:14 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Angelino97

Every time I think we have reached Peak Insanity I find I have underestimated both peoples creativity in manufacturing insanity and my own limitations to anticipate just how insane and unserious things can get.


15 posted on 05/27/2024 8:39:32 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: William of Barsoom

Someone used AI to write that gobbledygook to impress weak minds. You aren’t stupid.


16 posted on 05/27/2024 8:41:23 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Human beings are the only species capable of mysticism. It was an evolutionary advantage since it led to wonderment, imagination, inquiry and psychological insight. That capacity for mysticism and the need to express it persists even in these hedonistic, neo pagan decadent times. Not surprising that people who have embraced and celebrate sexual perversion engage in bizarre rituals to conjure up dead queers.


17 posted on 05/27/2024 8:43:50 AM PDT by allendale
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To: rdcbn1

Yes


18 posted on 05/27/2024 8:59:40 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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So...... they’ll be asking Harvey Milk about his current political views?


19 posted on 05/27/2024 9:01:37 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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So...... they’ll be asking Harvey Milk about his current political views?

I would ask him about his relationship with Jim Jones.

20 posted on 05/27/2024 9:02:32 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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