Television Studies in Queer Times

Part I: Historicity: Placing Television Programming and Practices in Historical Context

1: "Queer Power: Multicultural Empowerment Narratives on Digital-Era TV," Ron Becker

2: "Briggs, Family, Queer," Melissa Hardie and Amy Villarejo

3: "In the Queer-View Mirror: Looking at 1991," Nick Salvato

4: "Like Living In a Different Time Zone": SBS's Queer Orientations," Robert Payne

Part II: Temporal Play: Queer Histories and Possibilities

5: "Making Things Perfectly Sketch: Reflexive Queer and Trans Themes in Sketch Comedy," Candace Moore

6: "Realizing Unrealizable Joy: Forming Queer Utopia in The Fathers Project," Hunter Hargraves

7: "Murdering Our Queer Past," Bridget Kies

8: "Obscure Temporalities: Dark and the Queering of Time Travel," Michael DeAngelis

Part III: Ideological Limitations: The Boundaries of What's Possible

9: "The Television-Industrial Closet," Julia Himberg

10: "TV's Ins and Outs, or (Bat) Signals and (Caped) Crusades," Lynne Joyrich

11: "How do Trans Men Make Babies? Transkids and Reproductive Fantasies," Slava Greenberg

12: "Queer Aesthetics in the Streaming Age," Jake Pitre

Part IV: Industrial Contextualization: Studying Production Processes

13: "Televising Lesbian Feminist Love-Politics on Dyke TV," Lauren Herold

14: "Producing Inclusion and Intersectionality: Queer Showrunners of Color in Contemporary Television," Sarah E. S. Sinwell

15: "Living in the Gray Area: Bisexual Resignifications in Desiree Akhavan's The Bisexual," Maria San Filippo

16: "Visual Pleasure and Video-Sharing Platforms: If I Was Your Girl and the Representation of Black Sexuality," Faithe J. Day