The Case of John and Juliet: TV Reboots, Gender Swaps, and the Denial of Queer Identity

This article deals with issues of diversity and “visibility politics” in contemporary American middlebrow television. The focus here is specifically how the reboots of Hawaii Five-0 approach these issues. This article uses the gender swap Magnum, P.I., where Higgins (John Hillerman/Perdita Weeks) is...

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Main Author: Jenner Mareike
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2023-10-01
Series:Open Cultural Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0189