Eliott Simpson
From 2014-2017 I studied and undergraduate course in Film & Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, where I achieved a First class BA honours degree.
During my time at university I came to terms with my sexual identity as Asexual. Having felt so liberated by this self-realisation, I dedicated many of my following essays including my dissertation to the topic of asexuality and it's representation within media.
It is still an ongoing study that I continue to develop and improve upon to this very day.
Supervisors: Dr. Eylem Atakav and Brett Mills
During my time at university I came to terms with my sexual identity as Asexual. Having felt so liberated by this self-realisation, I dedicated many of my following essays including my dissertation to the topic of asexuality and it's representation within media.
It is still an ongoing study that I continue to develop and improve upon to this very day.
Supervisors: Dr. Eylem Atakav and Brett Mills
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This dissertation proposes to investigate representations of asexuality within television comedy, analysing how the term as a “sexual orientation, just like heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality” can be read and interpreted within a selection of case studies made up of examples of television sitcoms. By analysing how asexuality is discussed within media texts, the representations can then be likened to how other queer identities have been historically presented and stereotyped within television, as well as investigate how asexuality’s associated behavioural traits are central to the construction of humour within sitcom.
This dissertation proposes to investigate representations of asexuality within television comedy, analysing how the term as a “sexual orientation, just like heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality” can be read and interpreted within a selection of case studies made up of examples of television sitcoms. By analysing how asexuality is discussed within media texts, the representations can then be likened to how other queer identities have been historically presented and stereotyped within television, as well as investigate how asexuality’s associated behavioural traits are central to the construction of humour within sitcom.