Making things perfectly queer : interpreting mass culture / / Alexander Doty
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| Autore: |
Doty Alexander
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| Titolo: |
Making things perfectly queer : interpreting mass culture / / Alexander Doty
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 146 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4 |
| 306.766 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Homosexuality on television |
| Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Television programs - Social aspects - United States | |
| 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.: | 9910808206703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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