What Is A Simple Bite On The Buttocks Among Friends? A Queer Analysis of DreamWorks’s Madagascar Franchise

Tim Schneider

What Is A Simple Bite On The Buttocks Among Friends?

A Queer Analysis of DreamWorks’s Madagascar Franchise

Authors

Tim Schneider Universität Bayreuth Author

Keywords:

Queer Studies, Film Studies, Animation Studies

Abstract

This paper offers a queer reading of Madagascar, showing how its non/human characters question gender and sexuality, while exposing tensions between queer liberation and the heteronormative constructs, based on Judith Butler and Stuart Hall’s works.