The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom :
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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom :

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The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom :

About this book

The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom explores how the fantasies of genre, marketing, and children can never fully cloak the queerness lurking within the plucky families designed for American viewers' comic delight. Queer readings of family sitcoms demolish myths of yesteryear, demonstrating the illusion of American sexual innocence in television's early programs and its lasting consequences in the nation's self-construction, as they also allow fresh insights into the ways in which more recent programs negotiate new visions of sexuality while indebted to previous narrative traditions. Tison Pugh thoroughly explores six specific family sitcoms to illustrate how issues of sexuality intersect with other critical concerns of their respective periods and cultures.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction: TV’s Three Queer Fantasies
  7. Chapter 1: The Queer Times of Leave It to Beaver: Beaver’s Present, Ward’s Past, and June’s Future
  8. Chapter 2: Queer Innocence and Kitsch Nostalgia in The Brady Bunch
  9. Chapter 3: No Sex Please, We’re African American: The Cosby Show’s Queer Fear of Black Sexuality
  10. Chapter 4: Feminism, Homosexuality, and Blue-Collar Perversity in Roseanne
  11. Chapter 5: Allegory, Queer Authenticity, and Marketing Tween Sexuality in Hannah Montana
  12. Chapter 6: Conservative Narratology, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family
  13. Conclusion: Tolstoy Was Wrong; or, On the Queer Reception of Television’s Happy Families
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. List of Television Programs
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index
  19. About the Author