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Queering Contemporary Comedy: FX's What We Do in the Shadows and the Mediation of Nonnormative Gender and Sexual Identities

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Journal of Communication Inquiry

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Abstract

Journal of Communication Inquiry, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 166-185, April 2026.
Utilizing queer theory, a textual analysis of 50 episodes of the FX horror-comedy seriesWhat We Do in the Shadows(2019–) resulted in three overarching themes: (1) representation of different forms of queerness and open expression of character identities,...