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Reading The L word : outing contemporary television / edited by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe ; introduction by Sarah Warn.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.L48 R43 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Reading contemporary television
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- L word (Television program)--Criticism and interpretation.
- L word (Television program).
- Homosexuality on television.
- Bisexuality on television.
- Gay people in popular culture.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 247 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States and in Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Summary:
- A provocative look at the controversial TV show
- Contents:
- Sex and the clittie / Diane Anderson-Minshall
- The L word under-whelms the UK? / Paula Graham
- Interview with Guinevere Turner (November 2004) / Sarah Warn
- New queer cable? The L word, the small screen and the bigger picture / Michele Aaron
- The (in)visible lesbian: anxieties of representation in The L word / Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann Roripaugh
- How does a lesbian look? Stendhal's syndrome and The L word / Dana Heller
- Lipstick leviathans: demonologies of the lesbian body in The L word / Mark W. Bundy
- Heteronormativity and The L word: from a politics of representation to a politics of norms / Samuel A. Chambers
- Straight-up sex in The L word / Lorna Wheeler and Lara Raven Wheeler
- The chart / Kim Ficera
- "L" is for "long term": compulsory monogamy on The L word / Merri Lisa Johnson
- Why is The L word sexy? / Kathy Belge
- What is a straight girl to do? Ivan's serenade, Kit's dilemma / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass
- Is she man enough? female masculinities on The L word / Candace Moore and Kristen Schilt
- Interview with Katherine Moennig (March 2003) / Sarah Warn
- The other "L" word: representing a Latina identity / Shauna Swartz
- The glamour factor and the Fiji effect / Jennifer Vanasco
- Radical acts: biracial visibility and The L word / Sarah Warn
- Hot stuff: music as a language of lesbian culture / Zoë Gemelli
- Interview with Erin Daniels (January 2004) / Sarah Warn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-244) and index.
- Includes filmography: pages [232]-234.
- ISBN:
- 1845111796
- OCLC:
- 65338053
- Publisher Number:
- 978845111793
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