Ethereal queer
Subtitle: television, historicity, desire
By: Amy Villarejo
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780822354956; 9780822355113
Subjects: Homosexuality on television; Gays in popular culture; Television programs
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 television's 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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Adorno's antenna; title: Excursus on media and temporality; title: "Television ate my family" : Lance Loud on TV; title: Queer ascension : television and tales of the city; title: Coda: Becoming.