Loving The L word
Subtitle: the complete series in focus
By: edited by Dana Heller
Series: Reading contemporary television; Reading contemporary television
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781780764245
Subjects: Homosexuality on television; L word (Television program); Gays in popular culture
Description: "'Loving The L Word' picks up where 'Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television' left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first volume, as well as essays by some newcomers, 'Loving The L Word' explores the series' quantum contribution to the ongoing evolution of queer television. Whether you loved 'The L Word', hated it, or loved to hate it, this book recognizes that the show transformed the post-Ellen LGBT television landscape, fulfilling a long-neglected, visceral desire for lesbian stories and images. In the process, it reshaped the communities that follow and talk about queer television and care about the narratives and characters that drive it. Including complete Character/Actor, Film/TV and Episode guides, the book also proceeds from the understanding that while 'The L Word' ended in 2009 it manages to live on--in the lives of its fans, as well as in a new reality spin-off, 'The Real L Word'."--Publisher's Web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : loving and losing : from The L word to the "R" word  -- Dana Heller -- Part 1.; title: Lamentations --; title: "Slip under my cloak of boringness. No one will even know we're gone"  -- Kim Ficera; title: The T word : exploring transgender representation in The L word  -- Rebecca Beirne; title: The end of The L word : fan pleasure or fan pain?  -- Faye Davies -- Part 2.; title: Laudations --; title: Queering The L word  -- Sal Renshaw; title: The trouble with Shane : lesbians and polygamy  -- Heidi Schlipphacke; title: "L" is for looking again : art and representation on The L word  -- Margaret T. McFadden -- Part 3.; title: Lineage --; title: Trashy, trivial, and testimonial : from pulp novels to The L word  -- Marnie Pratt; title: From the bottom to West Hollywood : finding community in Sula and The L word  -- Winnie McCroy; title: "No limits" entertainment : all-consuming transgressions in Showtime's The L word  -- Deborah E.R. Hanan -- Part 4.; title: Legacy --; title: Imagining queer community in The L word  -- Cristyn Davies and Kellie Burns; title: "The D word"  -- Candace Moore; title: Why The Real L word matters : community and lesbian sex, in the flesh -- Tara Shea Burke.