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- Title
QUEER SPECTRALITIES AND UNTIMELY SUBJECTS: QUEER GHOST HUNTERS AND PARANORMAL REALITY TELEVISION.
- Authors
CHABOT, KEVIN
- Abstract
Queer Ghost Hunters (Stu Maddux, 2016-) in an independently-produced YouTube web series in which queer paranormal investigators set out to contact queer ghosts ofthe past. The show stages an intervention within the paranormal reality television genre, critiquing the lack of queer content in popular shows such as Ghost Hunters. Despite the routine investigations of prisons and mental asylums, sites that have historically functioned to oppress queer people, queer ghosts are not sought after in mainstream paranormal reality TV thereby rendering queer history and injustice invisible. Queer Ghost Hunters aims to rectify this invisibility by attempting to contact queer ghosts and revealing the presence of lost pasts. This article argues that Queer Ghost Hunters employs the seance as a queered historiographical methodology that emphasizes the haunted presence of absent histories. The show rejects the technophilic masculinity on display in shows like Ghost Hunters in favour of an affective encounter with the spectral. In so doing, Queer Ghost Hunters resists a linear conception of time as progress, linking the temporal economies of the ghost and the queer--each rejecting the stability of linear, sequential progression in favour of an itinerant flow infused by a simultaneity of past, present, and future.
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
0847-5911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/cjfs.28.2.2018-0019