Closures : heterosexuality and the American sitcom / Grace Lavery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavery, Grace E., author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Situation comedies (Television programs).

Situation comedies (Television programs)--Social aspects--United States.

Sex role on television.

Heterosexuality.

Homosexuality on television.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 110 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Closures surveys the seven-decade history of the American sitcom from the perspective of trans theory. With detailed close readings of shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Who's the Boss to Third Rock from the Sun, Friends, BoJack Horseman, The Office, and others, Grace E. Lavery highlights the centrality of the blended family narrative that situates the family as a perpetually incomplete project as well as the weakening of social ties as the sitcom evolves from a family setting to a friendship group to a workplace setting. The book's title refers to how episodic narrative closure in the serialized sitcom paradoxically requires a continual reopening of the stable family, disrupting the traditional finality of the comedic marriage plot. In this way, the sitcom character, operating in a situation of endless becoming, is rendered structurally trans"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Full House

Friends

Parallels.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Lavery, Grace E. Closures.

ISBN:

9781478059134

1478059133

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.