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"This collection of fresh essays analyzes queerness as depicted on TV from 2000 to the present. The contributors demonstrate that queer characters in general have achieved visibility at the expense of minimizing much of their queerness--with a few eye-opening exceptions"--

Homosexuality on television. --- Television and gays. --- Television broadcasting --- Television --- History --- Social aspects

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Gender identity on television. --- Homosexuality and television --- Homosexuality on television. --- Television and gays --- Television programs --- Television programs --- Political aspects --- Social aspects

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"This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia. Through case studies of musical soap operas (Glee and Empire), reality shows (RuPauls Drag Race, The Prancing Elites Project and I Am Cait) and "quality" dramas (Looking, Transparent and Sense8), it argues that entertainment elements such as music, humour, storytelling and melodrama function as pedagogical tools, inviting viewers to empathise with and understand queer characters. Each chapter focuses on a particular programme, looking at what it teaches--its representation of queerness--and how it teaches this--its pedagogy. Situating the programmes in their broader historical context, this study also shows how these televisual texts exemplify a specific moment in American television." --

Motion pictures and television. --- Queer theory --- Television programs for gays --- Television and gays --- Homosexuality and television --- Homosexuality on television --- Gender nonconformity on television. --- Gender identity on television --- Television programs for gay people. --- Television and gay people.