Research Catalog

Title

Camp TV : trans gender queer sitcom history / Quinlan Miller.

Author

Miller, Quinlan, 1981-

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xi, 220 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered conformist in their depictions of gender roles and sexual attitudes. In 'Camp TV' Quinlan Miller offers a new account of the history of American television that explains what campy meant in practical sitcom terms in shows as iconic as 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' as well as in more obscure fare, such as 'The Ugliest Girl in Town'. Situating his analysis within the era's shifts in the television industry and the coalescence of straightness and whiteness that came with the decline of vaudevillian camp, Miller shows how the sitcoms of this era overflowed with important queer representation and gender nonconformity. Whether through regular supporting performances (Ann B. Davis's Schultzy in 'The Bob Cummings Show'), guest appearances by Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly, or scripted dialogue and situations, industry processes of casting and production routinely esteemed a camp aesthetic that renders all gender expression queer. By charting this unexpected history, Miller offers new ways of exploring how supposedly repressive popular media incubated queer, genderqueer, and transgender representations.

Series Statement

Console-ing passions

Uniform Title

Console-ing passions.

Subjects

• Television > Social aspects
• Homosexuality and television
• Situation comedies (Television programs)
• Homosexuality and television > United States > History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• United States
• Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States > History and criticism
• History
• Television > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century
• Gender nonconformity on television
• Transgender people in popular culture > United States
• 1900-1999
• Gender identity on television

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

Contents

Camp TV and queer gender : sitcom history -- Queer gender and Bob Cummings : Hollywood camp TV -- Marriage schmarriage : sex and the single person -- Trans camp TV : methods for girl history -- Conclusion: Around-the-clock queer gender : digital camp TV.

Call Number

MWGS 19-2828

ISBN

• 9781478001850
• 1478001852
• 9781478003038
• 1478003030

LCCN

2018037344

OCLC

1037027580

Author

Miller, Quinlan, 1981- author.

Title

Camp TV : trans gender queer sitcom history / Quinlan Miller.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Console-ing passions

Console-ing passions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Form:

Online version: Miller, Quinlan, 1981- author. Camp TV Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478003397 (DLC) 2018044915

Research Call Number

MWGS 19-2828