DOMESTICATIONS AND DISRUPTIONS_训话与破坏

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1、DOMESTICATIONSANDDISRUPTIONS:LESBIANIDENTITIESINTELEVISIONADAPTATIONSOFCONTEMPORARYBRITISHNOVELSbyHeatherErinEmmensAthesissubmittedtotheDepartmentofEnglishInconformitywiththerequirementsforthedegreeofDoctorofPhilosophyQueen’sUniversityKingston,Ontario,Canada(May,2009)Copyrig

2、ht©HeatherErinEmmens,2009AbstractThefirstdecadeofthiscenturymarkedamomentofhypervisibilityforlesbiansandbisexualwomenonBritishtelevision.Duringthistime,however,lesbianhypervisibilitywascodedrepeatedlyashyperfemininity.WhentheBBCandITVadaptedSarahWaters’snovelsfortelevision,h

3、ow,Iask,didthescreenversionsbalancethedemandsofpopvisualculturewiththenovels’complex,unconventional–andinsomecasessubversive–representationsoflesbianism?Ipursuethisquestionwithaninterdisciplinarymethodologydrawnfromqueerandfeministtheories,culturalandmediastudies,andfilmadap

4、tationtheory.ChapterTwolooksbacktoJeanetteWinterson’sOrangesAreNottheOnlyFruit(BBC1990).Iexaminethistext–thefirstBBCtelevisionserialtofeaturealesbianprotagonist–toestablishavocabularyfordiscussingthepage-to-screenadaptationofqueeridentitiesthroughoutthisdissertation.ChapterT

5、hreeinvestigatesWaters’sfirstnovelTippingtheVelvet(1998)anditscomplexintertextualrelationshipwithAndrewDavies’sserializedversion(BBC2002).IalsoexamineresponsestotheserialintheBritishpress,tracingthewaysinwhichdominantculturalforcesseektodomesticatenon-normativeinstancesofgen

6、derandsexuality.ChapterFourexaminesWaters’snovelFingersmith(2002)inrelationtoPeterRansley’sadaptation(BBC2005)tosituateadaptationsofWaters’sretro-VictoriantextsamidthegenreoftelevisionandfilmadaptationsofJaneAustennovels.IarguethatRansley’sserialinterrogatesthenotionofAusten

7、asa“conservativeicon”(Cartmell24)andqueerstheAustenadaptationgenreitself.ToconcludethisstudyIaddressDavies’stelevisionfilm(ITV2008)ofWaters’ssecondnovelAffinity(1999).InthischapterIexaminehowtheadaptationdepictsthedisruptivelesbianatthecentreofthetext.Iargueinparticularthatb

8、ycastinganactresswhodoesnotconformtodominanttelevisualnormsoffemininity,the