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Jacqueline Ristola
Lecturer
University of Bristol
Education/Degree:
1 Film and Moving Image Studies Film and Moving Image Studies (Concordia University, Montréal)
About
Dr. Jacqueline Ristola is a Lecturer in the Department of Film and Television at the University of Bristol. She received her PhD in Film and Moving Image Studies from Concordia University, Montréal. Her latest research project examines queer representation in animation, studying how queer artists use animation to experiment an envision alternative configurations of gender and sexuality. She is currently the co-chair for SCMS's Animated Media SIG. Her work is published in Television and New Media, Kinephanos, Synoptique, Con a de animación, and Animation Studies Online Journal, where she was awarded the inaugural Maureen Furniss Student Essay Award. She also co-edited a special issue on LGBTQ Animation for Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, and has chapters in edited collections on popular television series Steven Universe and Bojack Horseman.
Current Work
Dr. Ristola's current project engages in a transnational comparative analysis to examine the production of animated queerness across the UK, US, France, and Japan to demonstrate the diverse and innovative methods of queer expression in animation that retheorize queer and trans knowledge and experience. Whereas previous scholarship examines queer and trans representation on the level of narrative, this project attends to the non-narrative aesthetic dimensions of animation, such as design, color, sound, and movement, demonstrating animations unique aesthetic affordances for queer and trans expression. This is a vital intervention within animation studies and the discipline of film and media studies more broadly, as it addresses the issues that scholars of representation have identified, namely the ways in which representation has become mired into simplistic box checking by the media industries.
Research Area Keyword(s)
queer media, film, animation,