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Making things perfectly queer : interpreting mass culture / Alexander Doty

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [1993]

1 Online-Ressource (168 Seiten)

Englisch

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Makes Queerness Most?; ONE: There's Something Queer Here; TWO: Whose Text Is It Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auteurs, and Queer Authorship; THREE: I Love Laverne and Shirley: Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms; FOUR: The Gay Straight Man: Jack Benny and The Jack Benny Program; FIVE: The Sissy Boy, the Fat Ladies, and the Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee's World; Afterword: ""You Flush It, I Flaunt It!""; Notes; Index

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Making things perfectly queer / Alexander Doty (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-8166-8503-5

978-0-8166-2244-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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PN1992.8.H64

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Doty demonstrates how queer readings can be-and are-performed by examining star images like Jack Benny and Pee-wee Herman, women-centered sitcoms like Laverne and Shirley and Designing Women, film directors like George Cukor and Dorothy Arzner, and genres like the musical