The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom / Tison Pugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pugh, Tison, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television programs--Social aspects--United States.

Television programs.

Sex role on television.

Homosexuality on television.

Homosexuality and television.

Situation comedies (Television programs)--United States--History and criticism.

Situation comedies (Television programs).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition. Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813591759

0813591759

9780813591735

0813591732

OCLC:

989811413

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access