Queer TV (eBook, PDF)

Theories, Histories, Politics
Redaktion: Davis, Glyn; Needham, Gary

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics is the first book to explore television in all its scope and complexity - its industry, production, texts, audiences, pleasures and politics - in relation to queerness. With contributions from distinguished authors working in film/television studies and the study of gender/sexuality, it offers a unique contribution to both disciplines.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134058563
• Artikelnr.: 43070605

Autorenporträt

Glyn Davis is Academic Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies at The Glasgow School of Art. He is the author of monographs on Queer as Folk (2007), Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (2008) and Far From Heaven (2009). Gary Needham is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is the co-editor, with Dimitris Eleftheriotis, of Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide (2006) and the author of a monograph on Brokeback Mountain (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Pleasures of the Tube Glyn Davis and Gary Needham Part I:
Theories and Approaches 1. Epistemology of the Console Lynne Joyrich 2.
Ethereal Queer: Notes on Method Amy Villarejo 3. Towards Queer Television
Theory: Bigger Pictures sans the Sweet Queer-After Michele Aaron Part II:
Histories and Genres 4. One Queen and His Screen: Lesbian and Gay
Television Andy Medhurst 5. 'We're Not All So Obvious': Masculinity and
Queer (In)Visibility in American Network Television of the 1970s Joe
Wlodarz 6. 'Something for Everyone': Lesbian and Gay 'Magazine' Programming
on British Television, 1980-2000 Greg Woods 7. Guy Love: A Queer Straight
Masculinity for a Post-Closet Era? Ron Becker Part III: Television Itself
8. Scheduling Normativity: Television, The Family, and Queer Temporality
Gary Needham 9. Cruising the Channels: The Queerness of Zapping Jaap
Kooijman 10. Hearing Queerly: Television's Dissident Sonics Glyn Davis

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Introduction: The Pleasures of the Tube Glyn Davis and Gary Needham Part I: Theories and Approaches 1. Epistemology of the Console Lynne Joyrich 2. Ethereal Queer: Notes on Method Amy Villarejo 3. Towards Queer Television Theory: Bigger Pictures sans the Sweet Queer-After Michele Aaron Part II: Histories and Genres 4. One Queen and His Screen: Lesbian and Gay Television Andy Medhurst 5. 'We're Not All So Obvious': Masculinity and Queer (In)Visibility in American Network Television of the 1970s Joe Wlodarz 6. 'Something for Everyone': Lesbian and Gay 'Magazine' Programming on British Television, 1980-2000 Greg Woods 7. Guy Love: A Queer Straight Masculinity for a Post-Closet Era? Ron Becker Part III: Television Itself 8. Scheduling Normativity: Television, The Family, and Queer Temporality Gary Needham 9. Cruising the Channels: The Queerness of Zapping Jaap Kooijman 10. Hearing Queerly: Television's Dissident Sonics Glyn Davis

Rezensionen

'In examining the complexity of television - more than simply queer television - then the book is well placed in terms of the important contributions it makes to debates about industry, production, audiences and politics' - Times Higher Education Supplement, 6th August 2009 (Reviewer: Tony Purvis, University of Newcastle, UK)