Negotiating and queering US hegemony in TV drama: popular geopolitics and cultural studies
This article argues that popular geopolitics should pay closer attention to entertainment television and to the negotiations, complexities, and contradictions associated with contemporary televisual texts. This move requires a closer engagement with media and cultural studies than that
initiated to date. In the second half of the article, we discuss the ABC TV drama Commander in Chief, which follows the first female president of the USA, and is set in a post-9/11 world wherein the struggle for US geopolitical domination has become a much more complex endeavor. We
end by wondering whether entertainment television might provide us with imaginative resources for queering US hegemony.
Keywords: ciudadanía cultural; cultural citizenship; cultural studies; estudios culturales; gender; geopolítica popular; género; popular geopolitics; television; televisión
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: School of English and Media Studies, Massey University, Private Box 756, Wellington,6140, New Zealand 2: School of Geosciences Drummond St, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,EH8 9XP, UK
Publication date: 07 February 2015
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