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- The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom
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- 2018
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
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Winner of the 2019 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for the Best Work in LGBTQ Studies from the PCA
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.
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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.
Download open access ebook here.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. 197-198
- List of Television Programs
- pp. 199-204
- Works Cited
- pp. 227-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813591759
Related ISBN(s)
9780813591728, 9780813591735, 9780813591742
MARC Record
OCLC
989811413
Pages
258
Launched on MUSE
2018-02-12
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
Copyright
2018