03967 am 22006973u 450 991025665120332120191221113333.00-8135-9175-90-8135-9173-210.36019/9780813591759(CKB)4100000001948623(MiAaPQ)EBC5265316(OCoLC)989811413(MdBmJHUP)muse60321(DE-B1597)528533(DE-B1597)9780813591759(ScCtBLL)c1b932fc-c3ba-42b8-ae94-e5901acdfec9(EXLCZ)99410000000194862320191221d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom /Tison PughNew Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]©20181 online resource (248 pages)0-8135-9172-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorThe 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.Television programsSocial aspectsUnited StatesSex role on televisionHomosexuality on televisionHomosexuality and televisionSituation comedies (Television programs)United StatesHistory and criticismElectronic books. American family.American sitcom.child actor.comedy.family sitcom.lgbtq.queer.sexuality.sitcom.television.Television programsSocial aspectsSex role on television.Homosexuality on television.Homosexuality and television.Situation comedies (Television programs)History and criticism.791.45/617Pugh Tison, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.856145DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910256651203321The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom2264647UNINA