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Queer TV in the 21st century : essays on broadcasting from taboo to acceptance / edited by Kylo-Patrick R. Hart.
- Title
- Queer TV in the 21st century : essays on broadcasting from taboo to acceptance / edited by Kylo-Patrick R. Hart.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland, [2016]
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- Additional Authors
- Hart, Kylo-Patrick R.
- Description
- viii, 221 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This collection of fresh essays analyzes queerness as depicted on TV from 2000 to the present. The contributors demonstrate that queer characters in general have achieved visibility at the expense of minimizing much of their queerness--with a few eye-opening exceptions"--
- Subject
- Sexual minorities on television
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : media representation and sensitive subjects / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart -- Gay it forward : how Will & Grace made gay male couples okay on television / Zachary Snider -- Skeletons in the closet : the contradictory views of the queer in the works of Joss Whedon / Don Tresca -- Beyond golden gardenias : versions of same-sex marriage in Queer as folk / Gael Sweeney -- We're here, we're queer, and we're better than you : the representational superiority of gay men to heterosexuals on Queer eye for the straight guy / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart -- From good to bad stories : examining the narrative of pregnancy in The L word as a means to teach and destabalize queerness / Anna Ciamparella -- The stylized image of the white lesbian : a model minority / Renee DeLong -- Digital drag : queer potentiality in the age of digital television / Looi Van Kessel -- Gay fathers in Modern family and The new normal : class, consumption, sexuality and parenting / Julia Erhart -- Brothers in arms : Spartacus, historical television and the celebration of queer masculinity / Thomas J. West III -- Leonardo's paradoxical queerness : Da Vinci's Demons and the politics of straightwashing / Dragos Manea -- Racial homophily and homogeneity as post-racial commodification in BrokeStraightBoys.tv / Michael Johnson, Jr. -- exploitation on YouTube : the rise, fall and rebirth of the gay network / Bridget Kies.
- ISBN
- 1476664404
- 9781476664408
- OCLC
- 948561020
- 948547940
- SCSB-12869942
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library