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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Main Author: Pugh, Tison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Introduction: TV's Three Queer Fantasies --  |t 1. The Queer Times of Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Present, Ward's Past, and June's Future --  |t 2. Queer Innocence and Kitsch Nostalgia in The Brady Bunch --  |t 3. No Sex Please, We're African American: The Cosby Show's Queer Fear of Black Sexuality --  |t 4. Feminism, Homosexuality, and Blue-Collar Perversity in Roseanne --  |t 5. Allegory, Queer Authenticity, and Marketing Tween Sexuality in Hannah Montana --  |t 6. Conservative Narratology, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family --  |t Conclusion: Tolstoy Was Wrong; or, On the Queer Reception of Television's Happy Families --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Television Programs --  |t Notes --  |t Works Cited --  |t Index --  |t About the Author 
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520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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