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- Title
"Reading Too Much into It": Affective Excess, Extrapolative Reading, and Queer Temporalities in MCU Fanfiction.
- Authors
Jackson, Maghan Molloy
- Abstract
This article engages José Esteban Muñoz's concept of queer utopian temporality through the heuristic of fanfiction. Beginning with a discussion of accusations of "excessive reading" as a normalizing disciplinary tactic of media viewership, I problematize representations of LGBT+ experience in mainstream television and cinema through Muñoz's figuration of "straight time." I then turn to close readings of several fannish texts created in conversation with the 2014 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo) to demonstrate fanfiction's utility in imagining queer utopian temporalities through the practice of "reading too much into" extant narrative media texts.
- Subjects
FAN fiction; MARVEL Universe; READING; AFFECT (Psychology); LITERARY adaptations
- Publication
JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies, 2023, Vol 63, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
2578-4900
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cj.2023.a910958