The Queer Fantasies Of The American Family Sitcom
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The Queer Fantasies Of The American Family Sitcom
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Author : Tison Pugh
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-27
The Queer Fantasies Of The American Family Sitcom written by Tison Pugh and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Art categories.
The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition. Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds.
Will Grace
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Author : Tison Pugh
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-05
Will Grace written by Tison Pugh and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Performing Arts categories.
The creation and legacy of the sitcom that transformed queer representation in American television.
Masculinities In The Us Hangout Sitcom
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Author : Greg Wolfman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-25
Masculinities In The Us Hangout Sitcom written by Greg Wolfman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-25 with Social Science categories.
Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms – Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl – mediate the tense relationship between neoliberalism and masculinities. Why is Ross in Friends so worried about everything? This book argues that the men in Friends and similar shows that follow young, straight, mostly white twentysomethings in major US cities are beset by a range of social and economic concerns about their place in society. Using multiple methods of analysis to examine these shows – including conjunctural analysis, historiographical method, and critical discourse analysis – a range of topics in these shows are examined, from sexuality through to homosociality, from race through to nationality. This book makes an insightful contribution to work on the television sitcom and on neoliberalism in culture and society. It will be an ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, post-graduates, and researchers in a range of disciplines including television and screen studies, critical studies on men and masculinities and humor studies.
Very Special Episodes
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Author : Jonathan Cohn
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-13
Very Special Episodes written by Jonathan Cohn and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Very Special Episodes explores various examples of the "very special episode" to chart the history of American television and its self-identified status as an arbiter of culture. Through the study of this unique television format, this anthology traces the history of television's engagement with many of the most important political, aesthetic, economic, and social movements that continue to challenge our society today.
The Sitcom
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Author : Jeremy G. Butler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-09
The Sitcom written by Jeremy G. Butler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-09 with Performing Arts categories.
In this new Routledge Television Guidebook, Jeremy G. Butler studies our love-hate relationship with the durable sitcom, analyzing the genre’s position as a major media artefact within American culture and providing a historical overview of its evolution in the USA. Everyone loves the sitcom genre; and yet, paradoxically, everyone hates the sitcom, too. This book examines themes of gender, race, ethnicity, and the family that are always at the core of humor in our culture, tracking how those discourses are embedded in the sitcom’s relatively rigid storytelling structures. Butler pays particular attention to the sitcom’s position in today’s post-network media landscape and sample analyses of Sex and the City, Black-ish, The Simpsons, and The Andy Griffith Show illuminate how the sitcom is infused with foundational American values. At once contemporary and reflective, The Sitcom is a must-read for students and scholars of television, comedy, and broader media studies, and a great classroom text.
Lgbt Inclusion In American Life
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Author : Susan Burgess
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2023-02-21
Lgbt Inclusion In American Life written by Susan Burgess and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-21 with Social Science categories.
A compelling explanation of the American public’s acceptance of LGBT freedoms through the lens of pop culture How did gay people go from being characterized as dangerous perverts to military heroes and respectable parents? How did the interests of the LGBT movement and the state converge to transform mainstream political and legal norms in these areas? Using civil rights narratives, pop culture, and critical theory, LGBT Inclusion in American Life tells the story of how exclusion was transformed into inclusion in US politics and society, as pop culture changed mainstream Americans thinking about “non-gay” issues, namely privacy, sex and gender norms, and family. Susan Burgess explores films such as Casablanca, various James Bond movies, and Julie and Julia, and television shows such as thirtysomething and The Americans, as well as the Broadway sensation Hamilton, as sources of growing popular support for LGBT rights. By drawing on popular culture as a rich source of public understanding, Burgess explains how the greater public came to accept and even support the three central pillars of LGBT freedoms in the post–World War II era: to have consensual adult sex without fear of criminal penalty, to serve openly in the military, and to marry legally. LGBT Inclusion in American Life argues that pop culture can help us to imagine unknown futures that lead beyond what we currently desire from contemporary politics, and in return asks now that the mainstream public has come to accept LGBT freedoms, where might the popular imagination be headed in the future?
Disrupting Dignity
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Author : Stephen M. Engel
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2021-06-15
Disrupting Dignity written by Stephen M. Engel and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-15 with Social Science categories.
Why LGBTQ+ people must resist the seduction of dignity In 2015, when the Supreme Court declared that gay and lesbian couples were entitled to the “equal dignity” of marriage recognition, the concept of dignity became a cornerstone for gay rights victories. In Disrupting Dignity, Stephen M. Engel and Timothy S. Lyle explore the darker side of dignity, tracing its invocation across public health politics, popular culture, and law from the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis to our current moment. With a compassionate eye, Engel and Lyle detail how politicians, policymakers, media leaders, and even some within LGBTQ+ communities have used the concept of dignity to shame and disempower members of those communities. They convincingly show how dignity—and the subsequent chase to be defined by its terms—became a tool of the state and the marketplace thereby limiting its more radical potential. Ultimately, Engel and Lyle challenge our understanding of dignity as an unquestioned good. They expose the constraining work it accomplishes and the exclusionary ideas about respectability that it promotes. To restore a lost past and point to a more inclusive future, they assert the worthiness of queer lives beyond dignity’s limits.
Television And The Genetic Imaginary
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Author : Sofia Bull
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-05-30
Television And The Genetic Imaginary written by Sofia Bull and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-30 with Performing Arts categories.
This book examines the complex ways in which television articulates ideas about DNA in the early 21st century. Considering television’s distinct aesthetic and narrative forms, as well as its specific cultural roles, it identifies TV as a key site for the genetic imaginary. The book addresses the key themes of complexity and kinship, which function as nodes around which older essentialist notions about the human genome clash with newly emergent post-genomic sensibilities. Analysing a wide range of US and UK programmes, from science documentaries, science fiction serials and crime procedurals, to family history programmes, sitcoms and reality shows, Television and the Genetic Imaginary illustrates the extent to which molecular frameworks of understanding now permeate popular culture.
Marginalized Women And Work In 20th And 21st Century British And American Literature And Media
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Author : Hediye Özkan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-10-31
Marginalized Women And Work In 20th And 21st Century British And American Literature And Media written by Hediye Özkan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-31 with Social Science categories.
As a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study on literary and visual representations of woman’s work, this collection examines the intricate relationship between marginalized women and work to understand the position of working women and the value of her labor in the capitalistic economic systems.
The History Of Trans Representation In American Television And Film Genres
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Author : Traci B. Abbott
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-05-02
The History Of Trans Representation In American Television And Film Genres written by Traci B. Abbott and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-02 with Social Science categories.
Due to the increase in transgender characters in scripted television and film in the 2010s, trans visibility has been presented as a relatively new phenomenon that has positively shifted the cis society’s acceptance of the trans community. This book counters this claim to assert that such representations actually present limited and harmful characterizations, as they have for decades. To do so, this book analyzes transgender narratives in scripted visual media from the 1960s to 2010s across a variety of genres, including independent and mainstream films and television dramatic series and sitcoms, judging not the veracity of such representations per se but dissecting their transphobia as a constant despite relevant shifts that have improved their veracity and variety. Already ingrained with their own ideological expectations, genres shift the framing of the trans character, particularly the relevance of their gender difference for cisgender characters and society. The popularity of trans characters within certain genres also provides a historical lineage that is examined against the progression of transgender rights activism and corresponding transphobic falsehoods, concluding that this popular medium continues to offer a limited and narrow conception of gender, the variability of the transgender experience, and the range of transgender identities.