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Camp TV
Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History
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Quinlan Miller
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
Quinlan Miller reframes American television history by tracing a camp aesthetic and the common appearance of trans queer gender characters in both iconic and lesser known sitcoms throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Author / Editor information
Quinlan Miller is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon.
Reviews
"Camp TV offers us theoretical and methodological challenges to presumptions and argumentations common in queer media histories…hence the usefulness here of a new terminology entirely. What the book also offers, however, is an impressive model of full-scale approach to queer media histories."
-- Taylor Cole Miller New Review of Film and Television Studies
"A revelatory historical reassessment of US network sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s.… Miller combines scholarly rigor with the engaged, politicized vivacity of a subversive connoisseur and the banter of a raconteur in order to rewrite dominant histories of the sitcom, camp, and LGBTQIA+ media representation.… A tour de force abounding with compelling and witty textual analyses fueled by painstaking archival research."
-- Ken Feil Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
"A detailed picture of the production and cultural contexts of queer gender appearance in sitcoms, ranging from non-conforming dress and gestures to critiques of heterosexual marriage."
-- Katharine Mussellam Jump Cut
"[Camp TV] is impressive and provides a necessary re-reading of neglected and devalued texts that cast our present studies of contemporary queerness into provocative question. . . . This book will be a valuable contribution to courses in television history, queer studies and, especially, studies of the queer in popular culture, and will be an antidote to institutional narratives that have solidified unproductively around the ‘newness’ of queer TV."
-- Judith Fathallah Critical Studies in Television
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 4, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781478003397
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
232
Other:
28 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9781478003397
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
