02647nam 2200613Ia 450 991045762730332120200520144314.00-8166-8503-7(CKB)1000000000347190(EBL)310246(OCoLC)227038288(SSID)ssj0000281659(PQKBManifestationID)11239901(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281659(PQKBWorkID)10307860(PQKB)11581004(MiAaPQ)EBC310246(MdBmJHUP)muse39396(Au-PeEL)EBL310246(CaPaEBR)ebr10151096(CaONFJC)MIL523274(EXLCZ)99100000000034719019921103d1993 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking things perfectly queer[electronic resource] interpreting mass culture /Alexander DotyMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc19931 online resource (168 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-2245-0 0-8166-2244-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexDoty 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.Homosexuality on televisionPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryTelevision programsSocial aspectsUnited StatesElectronic books.Homosexuality on television.Popular cultureHistoryTelevision programsSocial aspects306.4306.766Doty Alexander862410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457627303321Making things perfectly queer2447200UNINA