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Making things perfectly queer : interpreting mass culture / Alexander Doty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doty, Alexander.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homosexuality on television.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Television programs--Social aspects--United States.
- Television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 146 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Doty demonstrates how queer readings can be-and are-performed by examining star images like Jack Benny and Pee-wee Herman, women-centered sitcoms like Laverne and Shirley and Designing Women, film directors like George Cukor and Dorothy Arzner, and genres like the musical.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Makes Queerness Most?; ONE: There's Something Queer Here; TWO: Whose Text Is It Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auteurs, and Queer Authorship; THREE: I Love Laverne and Shirley: Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms; FOUR: The Gay Straight Man: Jack Benny and The Jack Benny Program; FIVE: The Sissy Boy, the Fat Ladies, and the Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee's World; Afterword: ""You Flush It, I Flaunt It!""; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8503-7
- OCLC:
- 227038288
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