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ISBN: 9780813591759 0813591759 9780813591735 0813591732 0813591724 9780813591728 0813591716 9780813591711 9780813591728 9780813591711 Year: 2018 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press,
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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition. Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds.
Homosexuality and television. --- Homosexuality on television. --- Sex role on television. --- Situation comedies (Television programs) --- Television programs --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Gays on television --- Homosexuality in television --- Television --- Television and homosexuality --- Sitcoms (Television programs) --- Television sitcoms --- Television situation comedies --- Television comedies --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Sex role in television --- History and criticism. --- American family. --- American sitcom. --- child actor. --- comedy. --- family sitcom. --- lgbtq. --- queer. --- sexuality. --- sitcom. --- television.
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ISBN: 082627417X 9780826274175 9780826221650 0826221653 9780826221650 Year: 2018 Publisher: Columbia, Missouri
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"Historian Sara Eskridge examines television's rural comedy boom in the 1960s and the political, social, and economic factors that made these shows a perfect fit for CBS. The network, nicknamed the Communist Broadcasting System during the Red Scare of the 1940s, saw its image hurt again in the 1950s with the quiz show scandals and a campaign against violence in westerns. When a rival network introduced rural-themed programs to cater to the growing southern market, CBS latched onto the trend and soon reestablished itself as the Country Broadcasting System. Its rural comedies dominated the ratings throughout the decade, attracting viewers from all parts of the country. With fascinating discussions of The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and other shows, Eskridge reveals how the southern image was used to both entertain and reassure Americans in the turbulent 1960s"--
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism. --- Popular culture --- Television programs --- Situation comedies (Television programs) --- Country life on television. --- Television --- Sitcoms (Television programs) --- Television sitcoms --- Television situation comedies --- Television comedies --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- History --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- CBS Television Network --- Cinema Center Films --- Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. --- CBS Inc. --- CBS Corp. --- CBS Productions --- Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. --- CBS Television --- C.B.S. Television Network --- CBS-TV --- C.B.S.-TV --- History. --- Southern States --- American South --- American Southeast --- Dixie (U.S. : Region) --- Former Confederate States --- South, The --- Southeast (U.S.) --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- United States, Southern --- On television.
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