Villarejo Ethereal Queer

Television, Historicity, Desire
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7742-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten

Ethereal Queer 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Villarejo, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Adorno's Antenna 30

2. Excursus on Media and Temporality 66

3. "Television Ate My Family": Lance Loud on TV 81

4. Queer Ascension: Television and Tales of the City 122

Coda: Becoming 152

Notes 163

Bibliography 185

Index 195

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Villarejo is Professor of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She is the author of Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire, also published by Duke University Press, and Film Studies: The Basics; coauthor of the BFI Film Classics volume Queen Christina; and coeditor of Keyframes.