Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2014 The Rainbow Effect: Exploring the Implications of Queer Representation in Film and Television on Social Change Maya S. Reddy Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Reddy, Maya S., "The Rainbow Effect: Exploring the Implications of Queer Representation in Film and Television on Social Change" (2014). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 953. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/953 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Claremont McKenna College The Rainbow Effect: Exploring the Implications of Queer Representation in Film and Television on Social Change ! ! ! ! ! ! ! SUBMITTED TO Professor Audrey Bilger AND Dean Nicholas Warner BY Maya Satya Reddy ! for SENIOR THESIS Spring 2014 April 28, 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 2 Wild Things: Queer Women in Television 12 The Bluest Eyes in Texas 30 Small Screen, Big Picture 43 Appendix 64 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Acknowledgements I have admired Professor Bilger since the first day I met her, during freshmen ori- entation. She has been a constant source of support and encouragement throughout my college career. Over the past year Professor Bilger’s dedicated involvement in my thesis has been invaluable. Through her many brilliant and helpful insights and comments, I was able to find my voice and create a piece of work that is profoundly important to me and that I am incredibly proud of. And of course, I would be remiss not to mention the multiple email threads about The Good Wife and Orange is the New Black that brought light into the many dark nights spent in the Poppa computer lab.