The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom /

"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...

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Autor principal: Pugh, Tison (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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  • 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