Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 283 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780813539324
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081353688X
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0813536898
Content:
After decades of silence on the subject of homosexuality, television in the 1990s saw a striking increase in programming that incorporated and, in many cases, centered on gay material. In shows including Friends, Seinfeld, Party of Five, Homicide, Suddenly Susan, The Commish, Ellen, Will & Grace, and others, gay characters were introduced, references to homosexuality became commonplace, and issues of gay and lesbian relationships were explored, often in explicit detail. In Gay TV and Straight America, Ron Becker draws on a wide range of political and cultural indicators to explain this
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-270) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Importance of Gay-Themed TV; Chapter 1: Straight Panic and American Culture in the 1990s; Chapter 2: Thinking about Gay People: Civil Rights and the Confusion Over Sexual Identity; Chapter 3: Network Narrowcasting and the Slumpy Demographic; Untitled; Chapter 4: The Affordable, Multicultural Politics of Gay Chic; Chapter 5: Gay Material and Prime-Time Network Television in the 1990s; Chapter 6: "We're Not Gay!": Heterosexuality and Gay-Themed Programming; Conclusion: Straight Panic in the 2000s; Appendix A: Select Gay-Themed Network TV Episodes
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Appendix B: List of InterviewsNotes; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813536880
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gay TV and Straight America
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813539324
