We would like to thank the following for providing probing insights, moral support and intellectual provocations: Jane Arthurs, Karen Boyle, Steve Cohan, Kay Dickinson, Alex Doty, Jane Feuer, Judith Halberstam, Julia Hallam, Ellis Hanson, Amelie Hastie, Joanne Hollows, Christine Holmlund, Karen Lury, Anna McCarthy, Alan McKee, Mandy Merck, Roberta Pearson, Julianne Pidduck, Christopher Pullen, Julie Russo, Chris Straayer, Sarah Street, Yvonne Tasker, Matthew Tinkcom, Yannis Tzioumakis, Dave Woods and Gregory Woods. Television itself 8 Scheduling normativity: television, the family, and queer temporalityĩ Cruising the channels: the queerness of zappingġ0 Hearing queerly: television’s dissident sonicsĪ large number of individuals have contributed to the development of this project, first and foremost our contributors to this collection. ISBN10: 5-4 (hbk) ISBN10: 6-2 (pbk) ISBN10: 2-1 (ebk) ISBN13: 978-5-4 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-6-1 (pbk) ISBN13: 978-2-5 (ebk)Īcknowledgements List of contributors Introduction: the pleasures of the tubeģ Towards queer television theory: bigger pictures sans the sweet queer-afterĤ One queen and his screen: lesbian and gay televisionĥ ‘We’re not all so obvious’: masculinity and queer (in)visibility in American network television of the 1970s JOE WLODARZĦ ‘Something for everyone’: lesbian and gay ‘magazine’ programming on British television, 1980–2000ħ Guy love: a queer straight masculinity for a post-closet era? Includes bibliographical references and index.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Queer TV : theories, histories, politics / edited by Glyn Davis and Gary Needham. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to Editorial Selection and Material © 2009 Glyn Davis and Gary Needham Individual Chapters © 2009 the Contributors All rights reserved. He is the co-editor, with Dimitris Eleftheriotis, of Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide (2006) and the author of a monograph on Brokeback Mountain (2009).įirst published 2009 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. Gary Needham is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is the author of monographs on Queer as Folk (2007), Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (2008) and Far from Heaven (2009).
Glyn Davis is Academic Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies at the Glasgow School of Art. Rather, the essays in Queer TV theorise not just the queerness in/on television – the production personnel, the representations it offers – but also the queerness of television as a distinct medium. The book crucially moves beyond lesbian and gay textual analyses of specific TV shows that have often focused on evaluations of positive/negative representations and identities. Individual essays examine the relationships between queers, queerness and television across the multiple sites of production, consumption, reception, interpretation and theorisation, as well as the textual and aesthetic dimensions of television and the televisual.
An introductory chapter by the editors charts the key debates and issues addressed within the book, followed by three sections, each central to an understanding of the relationships between queerness and television: ‘theories and approaches’, ‘histories and genres’, and ‘television itself’. With contributions from distinguished authors working in film/television studies and the study of gender/sexuality, it offers a unique contribution to both disciplines.
How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics is the first book to explore television in all its scope and complexity – its industry, production, texts, audiences, pleasures and politics – in relation to queerness.