ASCA 2006 article award for “Family Portrait”
Jaap Kooijman has won the 2006 article award of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis for his essay “Family Portrait: Queering the Nuclear Family in François Ozon’s Sitcom,” published in Patricia Pisters and Wim Staat (editors), Shooting the family: Transnational Media and Intercultural values, Amsterdam: AUP 2005. As the jury report says: “Kooijman presents an original analysis of how François Ozon’s film Sitcom recognizes the ‘queerness’ of the traditional nuclear family by introducing the ’sexually non-normative’ (the gay son) and ‘racial other’ (the Spanish maid and the African gym teacher) literally into the family portrait. His analysis of the film is intertextually informed by an in-depth knowledge of the television genre that Ozon’s film refers to, the sitcom, and other films that address the same them of the disruption of the western nuclear family. Written in an elegant and accessible style, the article presents not only a very rich analysis of developments in media representations with respect to the family and (the disruption of) its normative public facade, but also gives insight in larger discourses in society about the family that slowly start to change and open up to its ‘queer’ members.”
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