Spektaklet Susan Boyle på YouTube

Normer och värderingar av kvinnokroppen – Kuolema- ja sururituaalien virtualisaatio internetissä

Authors

  • Annika Kumlin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30666/elore.78956

Abstract

In her article, Annika Kumlin analyzes a YouTube video clip introducing Susan Boyle, the middle aged woman who took Britain by a storm in the Britain’s Got Talent reality show in 2009. The focal point in the article is the judges’ and audience’s surprised, even appalled reaction to her, as she appears on the stage for the very first time at the show. The video clip is only one minute and 17 seconds in lenght, but very rich in meaning, when it comes to the presentation and normative evaluation of a middle aged female body in a tv show. Based on her analysis of the clip, and taking the position of an participating observer, Kumlin seeks to understand the quality and amount of attention Susan Boyle’s appearance received at the time. Kumlin uses critical discourse analysis in combining physicality, gender, and age into a discursive construction about femininity and the grotesque.

Downloads

Published

2011-12-01

How to Cite

Kumlin, A. (2011). Spektaklet Susan Boyle på YouTube: Normer och värderingar av kvinnokroppen – Kuolema- ja sururituaalien virtualisaatio internetissä. Elore, 18(2). https://doi.org/10.30666/elore.78956

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2011): (Ei teemaa)

Section

Artikkelit

License

The journal follows Diamond Open Access publishing model: the journal does not charge authors and published texts are immediately available on the Journal.fi service for scientific journals. By submitting an article for publication on Elore, the author agrees, as of September 2024, that the work will be published under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Under the licence, others may copy, transmit, distribute and display the copyrighted work and any modified versions of the work based on it only if they attribute the licence, the original publication (link or reference) and the author as the original author. Any modifications made must be acknowledged.

Copyright of the texts remains with the authors, and self-archiving (Green OA) of the published version is allowed. This also applies to texts published before September 2024. The Green OA publication must include Elore's publication details.

The metadata for published articles is licensed under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.