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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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To: dfwgator
I'm really digging the Queer Spectralities and Untimely Subjects and the Queer Ghost Hunters thing.

Next Up - The Queer Ghost Busters movie sequel.

We have already had to watch the Female Ghost Busters so Queer Ghost Busters only makes sense as next in line .

Best hook line for a motion picture trailer in Hollywood history - “ The Queer Ghost Busters - we bust ass on ghosts”

If Bill Murray is still alive we can cast him as Professor Wankeman.

It's just too perfect - I see solid gold with major franchise possibilities.

21 posted on 05/27/2024 9:03:21 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: dfwgator

Never ask him about his “relationships”

😆🤣


22 posted on 05/27/2024 9:05:17 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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To: SaveFerris

Especially the ones with kids.


23 posted on 05/27/2024 9:05:55 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Angelino97

Try to contact dead spirits is a violation of the First Commandment and fraught with danger. If one tries to make contact with spirits who exercised perversion when alive, I shudder to think what they bring with them.


24 posted on 05/27/2024 9:06:36 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana
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To: Stosh

Bart and Lisa: “Dad, we did something very bad!”
Homer: “Did you wreck the car?”
Bart and Lisa: “No.”
Homer: “Did you raise the dead?”
Bart and Lisa: “Yes.”
Homer: “But the car’s okay?”
Bart and Lisa: “Uh-huh.”
Homer: “All right then.”


25 posted on 05/27/2024 9:11:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Angelino97

God knows what they are doing under the sheets.

wy69


26 posted on 05/27/2024 9:26:58 AM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: whitney69

I sure hope these folks enjoy the demonic entities that they’re about to encounter

😱😳🤯😲🙀


27 posted on 05/27/2024 9:35:20 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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To: KarlInOhio

Actually, Ghost Brothers is pretty good, consisting of a group of black friends who go ghost hunting.


28 posted on 05/27/2024 10:03:42 AM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: William of Barsoom

It’s just a bunch of nonsense designed to sound smart.


29 posted on 05/27/2024 10:11:15 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Angelino97
Queer Ghost Hunters? I'm confused are the ghost hunters queer, or is it that they are looking for ghosts who are GAY?

Like the American patriot ghost on Ghost. He loves the British ghost.

30 posted on 05/27/2024 10:38:23 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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