TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pugh,Tison
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom / 
SN  - 9780813591759
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Television programs
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Situation comedies (Television programs)
KW  - Sex role on television
KW  - Homosexuality on television
KW  - Homosexuality and television
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Gay Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Reference
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Society and culture : general
KW  - Émissions televisees
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Rôle selon le sexe à la television
KW  - Homosexualite à la television
KW  - Homosexualite et television
KW  - Comedies de situation
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: TV's Three Queer Fantasies --; 1. The Queer Times of Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Present, Ward's Past, and June's Future --; 2. Queer Innocence and Kitsch Nostalgia in The Brady Bunch --; 3. No Sex Please, We're African American: The Cosby Show's Queer Fear of Black Sexuality --; 4. Feminism, Homosexuality, and Blue-Collar Perversity in Roseanne --; 5. Allegory, Queer Authenticity, and Marketing Tween Sexuality in Hannah Montana --; 6. Conservative Narratology, Queer Politics, and the Humor of Gay Stereotypes in Modern Family --; Conclusion: Tolstoy Was Wrong; or, On the Queer Reception of Television's Happy Families --; Acknowledgments --; Television Programs --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index --; About the Author; Open Access
N2  - "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. Simply put, queer readings of America's domestic sitcoms radically unsettle the nation's simplistic vision of itself, revealing both a deeper vision of its families and of a television genre overwhelmingly dismissed as frivolous fare. 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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/57769/
ER  -