Ron Becker

Gay TV and Straight America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a wide range of political and cultural indicators to explain the sudden upsurge of gay material on prime-time network television in the 1990s, this book brings together analysis of relevant Supreme Court rulings, media coverage of gay rights battles, debates about multiculturalism, concerns over political correctness, and much more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 203mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780813536897
• ISBN-10: 0813536898
• Artikelnr.: 22368850

Autorenporträt

Ron Becker is an assistant professor of communications at Miami University in Ohio.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : the importance of gay-themed TV
Straight panic and American culture in the 1990s
Thinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over sexual
identity
Network narrowcasting and the slumpy demographic
The affordable, multicultural politics of gay chic
Gay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s
"We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programming
Straight panic in the 2000s