Author

Publication

2014 - Duke University Press, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

50,750 words, Guess

Page Count

203 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC791.45/653
  • LCCPN1992.8.H64 V55 2014

Description

"In Ethereal Queer, Amy Villarejo offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s. Challenging the widespread view that LGBT characters did not make a sustained appearance on television until the 1980s, she draws on innovative readings of TV shows and network archives to reveal queer television's lengthy, rich, and varied history. Villarejo goes beyond concerns about representational accuracy. She tracks how changing depictions of queer life, in programs from Our Miss Brooks to The L Word, relate to transformations in business models and technologies, including modes of delivery and reception such as cable, digital video recording, and online streaming. In so doing, she provides a bold new way to understand the history of television."--Publisher's description.

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Other Editions

  • Ethereal queer: television, historicity, desireDuke University Press2014-01-01

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