TY - BOOK AU - Trepier,Alexis TI - Audiences’ reactions to queerbating: a case study of the television series Gotham (Warner, 2014-2019) PY - 2023///. N1 - 62 N2 - ‪Fans of the television series Gotham have often criticized its use of queerbaiting, by which homoerotic relationships are suggested in order to attract a queer audience. Yet lesbian and gay couples such as #Babitha and #Nygmobblepot are depicted quite differently in the show. Our analyses of the series’ official Twitter account, of a fan fiction corpus and of comments and reactions to both reveal a connection between the show’s producers and the public which invites us to redefine the notion of queerbaiting.‪ UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-etudes-de-communication-2022-2-page-55?lang=en ER -