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Essays on Recent Programming
Keller, James R.
James R. Keller, Leslie Stratyner
ISBN: 9780786423903
Format: Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
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Television is awash with newly embraced gay and lesbian themes that have crossed over into the popular culture of America. Dramas like Queer as Folk and The L Word, comedies like Will & Grace, and even reality shows including Queer Eye for the Straight Guy signify a new commercial acceptance of homosexuality that has never been seen before in the United States. Some critics argue, however, that representations are oversimplified and rife with one…
Television is awash with newly embraced gay and lesbian themes that have crossed over into the collective pop culture of America. Dramas like "Queer As Folk" and "The L Word", comedies like "Will & Grace", and even reality shows including the popular "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" signify a new commercial acceptance of homosexuality that has never been seen before in the United States. However, the increasing exposure has prompted critics to argue that the gay and lesbian representation on television is oversimplified and is rife with one-dimensional characters. Ultimately, the viewers will decide the future of homosexuality and homosexual and lesbian characters on television. The text offers essays that explore such topics as the politics of representation and the clash of progressive and regressive social agendas in television and the workplace's emphasis on the search for a space for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and the transgendered within the mainstream media. The book contains criticisms of characters in such shows as "Six Feet Under", "Queer As Folk", "Friends" and "Ellen".
| ISBN | 0786423900 | | Pages | 200 | | ISBN13 | 9780786423903
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | McFarland & Co Inc | | Weight (grammes) | 313 | | Imprint | McFarland & Co Inc | | Published in | Jefferson, NC | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 217 | | Publication date | 15 Mar 2006 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | 2005029556 | | Spine width (mm) | 13 | | DEWEY | 791.45653 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| | | Introduction by James R. Keller and Leslie Stratyner | | 1 | | | | What do gay men desire? : peering behind the queer eye by Robert Benjamin Bateman | | 9 | | | | Queer eye on the prize : the stereotypical sodomites of summer by W. C. Harris | | 20 | | | | Embattled sex : rise of the right and victory of the queer in Queer as folk by Rebecca Clare Beirne | | 43 | | | | Queering the straight world : the politics of resignification in Queer as folk by Esther Peeren | | 59 | | | | A trip to the queer circus : reimagined masculinities in Will & Grace by Richard J. Conway | | 75 | | | | Straight and crazy? : bisexual and easy? : or drunken floozy? : the queer politics of Karen Walker by Danielle Mitchell | | 85 | | | | Desire and the "big black sex cop" : race and the politics of sexual intimacy in HBO's Six feet under by Guy Mark Foster | | 99 | | | | "We cannot afford to keep being so high-minded" : fighting the religious right on The L word by Margaret McFadden | | 113 | | | | Politics of the sitcom formula : Friends, Mad about you, and the Sapphic second banana by Kelly Kessler | | 130 | | | | Masculinity and male intimacy in nineties sitcoms : Seinfeld and the ironic dismissal by Margo Miller | | 147 | | | | Gay performativity and reality television : alliances, competition, and discourse by Christopher Pullen | | 160 | | | | Altar ego : GLAAD sacrifices male intimacy and commitment ceremonies to the media gods by James Black | | 177 | | | | Lesbians and serial TV : Ellen finds her inner adult by Becca Cragin | | 193 |
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