03497nam 22005055 450 991048418020332120200629202558.03-030-14872-610.1007/978-3-030-14872-0(CKB)4100000007823619(MiAaPQ)EBC5746949(DE-He213)978-3-030-14872-0(EXLCZ)99410000000782361920190403d2019 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Pedagogy of Queer TV[electronic resource] /by Ava Laure Parsemain1st ed. 2019.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2019.1 online resource (266 pages)Palgrave Entertainment Industries1. Introduction: Entertaining to Educate -- Part I: Historical Context -- 2. Looking Back: The Evolution of Queer TV -- Part II: Musical Soap Operas on Broadcast Television -- 3. It Gets Better: The Pedagogy of Glee -- 4. Burning Boxes: The Pedagogy of Empire -- Part III: Reality TV on Basic Cable -- 5. Queering and Policing Gender: The Pedagogy of RuPaul’s Drag Race -- 6. Butch Queens and Femme Queens: The Pedagogy of The Prancing Elites Project -- 7. The Self and the Other: The Pedagogy of I Am Cait -- Part IV: Quality Drama on Premium Cable and Streaming -- 8. It’s not TV: The Pedagogy of Looking -- 9. Realistic Entertainment: The Complex Pedagogy of Transparent -- 10. “I Am Also a We”: The Pedagogy of Sense8 -- 11. Conclusion: Engaging With the Other.This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia. Through case studies of musical soap operas (Glee and Empire), reality shows (RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Prancing Elites Project and I Am Cait) and “quality” dramas (Looking, Transparent and Sense8), it argues that entertainment elements such as music, humour, storytelling and melodrama function as pedagogical tools, inviting viewers to empathise with and understand queer characters. Each chapter focuses on a particular programme, looking at what it teaches—its representation of queerness—and how it teaches this—its pedagogy. Situating the programmes in their broader historical context, this study also shows how these televisual texts exemplify a specific moment in American television.Palgrave Entertainment IndustriesMotion pictures and televisionQueer theoryUnited States—Study and teachingScreen Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413000Queer Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35020American Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411010Motion pictures and television.Queer theory.United States—Study and teaching.Screen Studies.Queer Theory.American Culture.791.45653Parsemain Ava Laureauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1225638BOOK9910484180203321The Pedagogy of Queer TV2845637UNINA