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Doty Alexander |
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Making things perfectly queer : interpreting mass culture / / Alexander Doty |
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Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 1993 |
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©1993 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 146 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Homosexuality on television |
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Television programs - Social aspects - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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