Abstract
Using the BBC series Torchwood as a case study, this article shows how a homosexual or queer critical lens may restrict analysis of bisexual desire in film and television. It also discusses how conventions of bisexual representation constrain critics who struggle to articulate on-screen bisexuality as present and meaningful. In contrast, dimensional sexuality—a nonbinary model for representing complex sexualities—triangulates aspects of desire along multiple axes to reconfigure temporal and relational categories of sexual difference. Examples from Torchwood demonstrate how a dimensional mode of interpretation enables popular culture scholars to analyze bisexual and other nonbinary desires in a cinematic medium.
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