Research Log #3
Exploring Alien Stage
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- Rebel Echoes: Alien Stage's Rebellion Resonating with Queer Revolutions -
Why this Title? What Does it Mean?
As of now, I don’t have an official title for my research project, although, the current title that I am considering captures the topics that I will be exploring throughout my research on Alien Stage, which involves the correlation between the rebellion seen in the ALNST series and queer rights in our current society.
For Alien Stage, there is a common trope of rebellion that is shown throughout the series that connects back to the idea of how the creators of ALNST protest the oppression of queer lives in our current society. So while I searched for inspiration, I stumbled upon the term “Rebel Echoes”. Essentially this term is trying to portray that rebellion “echoes”. Rebellion can leave a lasting impact on individuals, leading to inspiration to change current societal norms that will reduce/eliminate oppression experienced by minorities, specifically the LGBTQ community.
Introduction:
✦For this research project, I would like to analyze all 9 animation videos that exist within the series: Rounds 1, 2, 3, 5, & 6; Alien Stage; MiziSua; Top 3; All-In ( all the episodes throughout the series consist of 4min long videos or less).
✦Throughout all the videos, there is a usual focus on a single character or a relationship between two characters involved. In this series, as mentioned before, there is a constant pattern of rebellion that the characters show, a rebellion that is not necessarily the same. What is interesting about this theme of rebellion is that these rebelling actions done by each character are done in a unique way, ways that I will be analyzing in my research to show how the obsessive relationships/love between different characters are the main cause of the rebellious acts they pursue. This analysis can then connect back to the rebellion that queer content creators pursue, or more specifically, how the producers of ALNST used the conventions of queer sci-fi dystopias in order to protest for LGBTQ+ rights.
Humanistic Research Questions and Methods:
✦While finding a variety of topics in the series, I was able to form a research question that includes elements of rebellion, LGBTQ, and relationships between the characters that I would want to speak about in my research on ALNST.
✦To do this, I have decided that for the majority of my analysis, the method of disciplinary analysis that I will be pursuing is visual analysis( seeing how this source forms meaning and emotion towards viewers). While there are no existing scholarly discussions on Alien Stage itself, the topic of how queer creators form homonormative media as an attempt to rebel against social norms connects back to the series as well since it is done by queer animators that fight heteronormativity by creating queer media, essentially creating homonormative worlds.
✦I feel that this approach is important in the sense that it will bring a new primary source into scholarly discourse on how much of an impact queer media has on consumers and the creators, which will shed light on marginalized individuals who identify themselves as part of the LGBTQ+ community.
Interpretations:
I want to be able to introduce this new form of media that has yet to be spoken about in a scholarly discussion. As mentioned before, I do believe that creating different kinds of media that contain LGBTQ+ representation serves as a way to protest for queer rights in our heteronormative society that continues to struggle to obtain queer rights. I would like to introduce the scholarly discussion of how Alien Stage's creators' experiences in the real world as people who are part of the queer community resorted to creating dystopian homonormative media, that includes queer representation, as a form of rebellion and protest for queer rights that allows consumers to gain inspiration to do the same.
work cited:
work cited:
VIVINOS. "Alien Stage." https://www.youtube.com/@VIVINOS
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