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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom explores how the fantasies of genre, marketing, and children can never fully cloak the queerness lurking within the plucky families designed for American viewers’ comic delight. Queer readings of family sitcoms demolish myths of yesteryear, demonstra...
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oapen-20.500.12657-307152024-03-25T09:51:40Z The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom Pugh, Tison Media & Communications queer media history sexuality television sitcoms situation comedy Homosexuality Modern Family Roseanne thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom explores how the fantasies of genre, marketing, and children can never fully cloak the queerness lurking within the plucky families designed for American viewers’ comic delight. Queer readings of family sitcoms demolish myths of yesteryear, demonstrating the illusion of American sexual innocence in television’s early programs and its lasting consequences in the nation’s self-construction, as they also allow fresh insights into the ways in which more recent programs negotiate new visions of sexuality while indebted to previous narrative traditions. Tison Pugh thoroughly explores six specific family sitcoms to illustrate how issues of sexuality intersect with other critical concerns of their respective periods and cultures. 2018-01-01 23:55:55 2020-02-25 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:08:20Z 2020-04-01T13:08:20Z 2017-11-01 book 643264 OCN: 1028762674 9780813591728 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30715 eng application/pdf n/a 643264.pdf Rutgers University Press 10.2307/j.ctt1trkkgj 101352 10.2307/j.ctt1trkkgj 111d1c48-fc70-44ba-97fa-39be459ee343 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780813591728 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) New Brunswick 101352 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom explores how the fantasies of genre, marketing, and children can never fully cloak the queerness lurking within the plucky families designed for American viewers’ comic delight. Queer readings of family sitcoms demolish myths of yesteryear, demonstrating the illusion of American sexual innocence in television’s early programs and its lasting consequences in the nation’s self-construction, as they also allow fresh insights into the ways in which more recent programs negotiate new visions of sexuality while indebted to previous narrative traditions. Tison Pugh thoroughly explores six specific family sitcoms to illustrate how issues of sexuality intersect with other critical concerns of their respective periods and cultures. |
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