Looks at queer representation and gender performativity encoded in visual and verbal signs in the cartoon animation, Steven Universe, using semiotic analysis. Uses qualitative data that looks at salient extracts from different scenes across the series, incorporating both visual and linguistic analysis alongside one another. This thesis would be useful for those who are interested in the relationship between queerness and subversive gender presentation in animation and how this can be represented on screen both visually and linguistically.
Mohd Najib, A. S. (2019). Queer representations in Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe: Encoding gender subversive signs in children’s animation [Master’s thesis, University of Malaya]. Universiti Malaya Students’ Repository. https://tinyurl.com/2ushxcjp