Televising Queer Women
A Reader
Beirne, Rebecca (EDT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, The L Word and The O.C.. It also offers a critical introduction to queer women on television and to the scholarship that discusses such representation, and allows a framework for a multiplicity of viewpoints on a variety of topics and series.
AUTHOR BIO
Rebecca Beirne is Lecturer and Tutor, University of Western Sydney.
BOOK REVIEWS
This collection is a welcome and timely addition to the growing library of academic texts exploring the complex and politically-charged intersections between television and queer identities. The essays gathered within its pages offer entertaining and provocative insights into a range of recent and contemporary US TV series. As a collection, the book highlights not only the variety of individual responses to multivalent texts, but also the ongoing importance of detailed interrogation of lesbian, bisexual and queer characters and programming.--Glyn Davis, University of Bristol; Author of Queer as Folk (2007) and co-editor of Queer TV (2008)
From Ellen to AfterEllen.com the L Word is finally being spoken on U.S. television, and these smart and sassy essays help us see where things are changing and where they are still la même chose. Nobody said it would be easy, and the scholars represented here are neither sentimental nor simply celebratory in their approach to the new lesbian visibility. Their cool and careful readings will help us all locate ourselves in the contemporary landscape of mediated queerness.--Larry Gross, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230600808
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230600805
Dewey Decimal: 791.45/6526643
Library of Congress: 2007016064
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 251
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