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Autore: | Doty Alexander |
Titolo: | Making things perfectly queer [[electronic resource] ] : interpreting mass culture / / Alexander Doty |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.4 |
306.766 | |
Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality on television |
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century | |
Television programs - Social aspects - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Making things perfectly queer |
ISBN: | 0-8166-8503-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910457627303321 |
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