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Author Pugh, Tison, author.

Title The queer fantasies of the American family sitcom / Tison Pugh.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

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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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 01, 2018).
This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: TV's Three Queer Fantasies -- 1. The Queer Times of Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Present, Ward's Past, and June's Future -- 2. Queer Innocence and Kitsch Nostalgia in The Brady Bunch -- 3. No Sex Please, We're African American: The Cosby Show's Queer Fear of Black Sexuality -- 4. Feminism, Homosexuality, and Blue-Collar Perversity in Roseanne -- 5. Allegory, Queer Authenticity, and Marketing Tween Sexuality in Hannah Montana -- 6. 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Television Programs -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author
Language In English.
Subject Situation comedies (Television programs) -- United States -- History and criticism.
Homosexuality and television.
Homosexuality on television.
Sex role on television.
Television programs -- Social aspects -- United States.
Comédies de situation -- Histoire et critique -- États-Unis.
Homosexualité et télévision.
Homosexualité à la télévision.
Rôle selon le sexe à la télévision.
Émissions télévisées -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
Society and culture : general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Homosexuality and television
Homosexuality on television
Sex role on television
Situation comedies (Television programs)
Television programs -- Social aspects
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Pugh, Tison. Queer fantasies of the American family sitcom. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018] 9780813591728 (DLC) 2017012061
ISBN 9780813591759 (electronic bk.)
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9780813591711
9780813591728 (hardcover)
9780813591711 (paperback)
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CHNEW 000987466
CHVBK 509473008

 
    
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