Ethereal Queer - Television, Historicity, Desire

Ethereal Queer offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s.

List of contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Adorno's Antenna 30

2. Excursus on Media and Temporality 66

3. "Television Ate My Family": Lance Loud on TV 81

4. Queer Ascension: Television and Tales of the City 122

Coda: Becoming 152

Notes 163

Bibliography 185

Index 195

About the author

Amy Villarejo

Summary

Ethereal Queer offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Villarejo
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2014
• EAN: 9780822355113
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5511-3
• No. of pages: 216
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet