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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom / Tison Pugh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pugh, Tison, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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. 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2017: Front list Collection
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101352
- ISBN:
- 9780813591728
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