num_pages: 216
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 televisions 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.
language: None
title: Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire
publisher: Duke University Press Books