Televising queer women: a reader

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, Sexand the City, The L Word 'and' The O.C.' Rebecca Beirne is Lecturer and Tutor, University of Western Sydney. INDICE: A Critical Introduction to Queer Women on Television - Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: The Swinging Closet Doors of Ellen DeGeneres' Televised Personalities; 'C.Moore - 'Mommy's Got a Gal-pal: The Victimized Lesbian Mother in the Made-for-TV-Movie; 'K.Kessler - 'Complicating the Open Closet: The Visual Rhetoric of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sapphic Lovers; 'T.Cochran' - 'Can You Just Be Kissing Me Now?': The Question(s) of Willow in 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer; C.Masson - 'States of Emergency: The Labors of Lesbian Desire in ER; D.Heller - Mapping Lesbian Sexuality on 'Queer as Folk; R.Beirne - 'A Label Like Gucci, Versace, or Birkenstock: Sex and the City and Queer Identity; T.Adkins - 'Going Native on Wonder Woman's Island': The Exoticization of Lesbian Sexuality in 'Sex and the City; M.M.M.Hidalgo - ''This Is the Way WeLiveb&and Love!': Feeding on and Still Hungering for Lesbian Representation in The L Word; M.Pratt - '[E]verything else is the same': Configurations of 'The L Word; M.C.Jonet'& 'L.Anh Williams' - 'Shades of Grey': Articulations of Bisexuality in 'The L Word; J.Moorman - 'Paradigmatically Oppositional Representations: Gender and Sexual Identity in 'The L Word; F.Davies' - Pink Heels, Dildos, and Erotic Play: The (Re)Making of Fem(me)ininity in Showtime's 'The L Word; E.Douglas - 'There's Something Queer Going on in Orange County: The Representation of Queer Women's Sexuality on 'The O.C.; A.Burgess'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60080-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 12/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés