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The jocundity of buddies, even at times of strife, masks the internal friction that exists in strong male pairs. Thus while audiences get to relive the paradise lost of boyhood they also must negotiate the minefield of masculine angst and competitiveness. If fact, the buddy genre tends to celebrate not the equality of a duo but the lone Alpha male assisted by the every-present, every-submissive Beta. Someone always had to hold the reins while the other “rode shotgun” to the hero’s errantry. No matter how elegantly the Alpha male finesses his superior status; the art of the subterfuge only reifies his eminence.
Anthony Barthelemy
GRAAT On-Line ISSUE #2 June 2007
Queer Readings of Television Series and Serials
edited by Georges-Claude Guilbert & Sébastien Salbayre
Articles (PDF):
David Coad – The Trouble with Normal in Kath & Kim
Charlotte Gould – “Not That There's Anything Wrong with That”: A Queer Reading of Seinfeld
In French
Hélène Charlery - The Young and the Restless ou la
plantation revue et corrigée (hors thème)
David Diallo - I am liberal! Analyse du discours sur l'homosexualité dans Curb Your Enthusiasm
Gilbert Pham-Thanh - Queering The Prisoner: tirer le bon numéro
Back issue:
Alison Bechdel issue (GRAAT #1 March 2007) available here
ISSN 1954-3220
GRAAT issue # 2
Queer Readings of Television Series and Serials
