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The queer fantasies of the American family sitcom
- Title
- The queer fantasies of the American family sitcom / Tison Pugh.
- Author
- Pugh, Tison
- Publication
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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- Description
- vii, 246 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom explores how the fantasies of genre, marketing, and children can never fully cloak the queerness lurking within the plucky families designed for American viewers' comic delight. Queer readings of family sitcoms demolish myths of yesteryear, demonstrating the illusion of American sexual innocence in television's early programs and its lasting consequences in the nation's self-construction, as they also allow fresh insights into the ways in which more recent programs negotiate new visions of sexuality while indebted to previous narrative traditions. Simply put, queer readings of America's domestic sitcoms radically unsettle the nation's simplistic vision of itself, revealing both a deeper vision of its families and of a television genre overwhelmingly dismissed as frivolous fare. Tison Pugh thoroughly explores six specific family sitcoms to illustrate how issues of sexuality intersect with other critical concerns of their respective periods and cultures"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-240) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : TV's three queer fantasies -- The queer times of Leave it to Beaver : Beaver's present, Ward's past, and June's future -- Queer innocence and kitsch nostalgia in The Brady bunch -- No sex please, we're African American : The Cosby show's queer fear of Black sexuality -- Feminism, homosexuality,a nd blue-collar perversity in Roseanne -- Allegory, queer authenticity, and marketing tween sexuality in Hannah Montana -- Conservative narratology, queer politics, and the humor of gay stereotypes in Modern family -- Conclusion : Tolstoy was wrong; or, on the queer reception of television's happy families.
- Call Number
- MWGT 18-2675
- ISBN
- 9780813591711
- 0813591716
- 9780813591728
- 0813591724
- LCCN
- 2017012061
- OCLC
- 982431039
- Author
- Pugh, Tison, author.
- Title
- The queer fantasies of the American family sitcom / Tison Pugh.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-240) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Pugh, Tison. Queer fantasies of the American family sitcom. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018] 9780813591735 (DLC) 2017027760
- Research Call Number
- MWGT 18-2675