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Making the Ad Perfectly Queer: Marketing “Normality” to the Gay Men's Community?
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The author introduces queer theory and queer deconstruction to the advertising literature. First, he briefly outlines the theoretical and political concerns of queer theory—an emerging branch of radical thought from the humanities. Then he interprets an ad exemplar from an Australian gay newspaper by both a traditional structuralist approach and a queer deconstruction approach. He argues that queer theory and queer deconstruction are potentially powerful sources of ad critiques and productive perspectives for more perceptive marketing practices, for they generate meanings associated with the “panoply of otherness” and expose the ways in which heteronormative discourse informs various representations of gay men in advertising.
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- Authors
- Kates, S. M.
- Corresponding author
- Kates, Steven M.
- Venue
- Journal of Advertising
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1999-03
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 25-37
- ISSN
- 0091-3367 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7805
- OpenAlex
- W2087983264
- Cited by
- 100
- References
- 80
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Advertising (publishedVersion)
- Griffith Research Online (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Sexuality, and Education
- Keywords
- queer theory, heteronormativity, representation of gay men, otherness
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