Winner of the?2019 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for the Best Work in LGBTQ Studies from the PCAThe Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage, and as a foundation for family building. The book examines how queerness, at first latent, became a vibrant yet continually conflicted part of the family-sitcom tradition.?Taking into account elements such as the casting of child actors, the use of and experimentation with plot traditions, the contradictory interpretive valences of comedy, and the subtle subversions of moral standards by writers and directors, Pugh points out how innocence and sexuality conflict on television. As older sitcoms often sit on a pedestal of nostalgia as representative of the Golden Age of the American Family, television history reveals a deeper, queerer vision of family bonds. ?Download open access ebook here.
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978-0-8135-9175-9 (9780813591759)
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TISON PUGH is a professor of English at University of Central Florida in Orlando. He is the author of several books including Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary Canon.
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Introduction: TV's Three Queer Fantasies Chapter 1: The Queer Times of Leave It to Beaver: Beaver's Present, Ward's Past, and June's Future Chapter 2: Queer Innocence and Kitsch Nostalgia in The Brady Bunch Chapter 3: No Sex Please, We're African American: The Cosby Show's Queer Fear of Black Sexuality Chapter 4: Feminism, Homosexuality, and Blue-Collar Perversity in Roseanne Chapter 5: Allegory, Queer Authenticity, and Marketing Tween Sexuality in Hannah Montana Chapter 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 List of Television Programs Notes Works Cited Index About the Author
