ISBN:
9780816685035
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (168 Seiten)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Doty, Alexander Making things perfectly queer
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Television programs Social aspects
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Popular culture History 20th century
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Homosexuality on television
;
Homosexualität
;
Fernsehen
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Homosexuality on television
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Popular culture ; United States ; History ; 20th century
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Television programs ; Social aspects ; United States
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Electronic books
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USA
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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