02593nam 2200601Ia 450 991078438290332120231005175949.00-8166-8503-7(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)99100000000034719019921103h19931993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaking things perfectly queer interpreting mass culture /Alexander DotyMinneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,1993.©19931 online resource (xix, 146 pages)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 StatesHomosexuality on television.Popular cultureHistoryTelevision programsSocial aspects306.4306.766Doty Alexander862410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784382903321Making things perfectly queer3854866UNINA