Loving The L Word
The Complete Series in Focus
Published on 9. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-78076-424-5 (ISBN)
Description
The complete and groundbreaking "The L Word" is now out on DVD and this book makes the perfect companion, covering the series in its entirety. "Loving The L Word" picks up where Reading "The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television" (I.B. Tauris, 2006) left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first volume, as well as essays by some newcomers, "Loving The L Word" explores the series' quantum contribution to the ongoing evolution of queer television. Whether you loved "The L Word", hated it, or loved to hate it, this book recognizes that the show transformed the post-Ellen LGBT television landscape, fulfilling a long-neglected, visceral desire for lesbian stories and images. In the process, it reshaped the communities that follow and talk about queer television and care about the narratives and characters that drive it. Including complete Character/Actor, Film/TV and Episode guides, the book also proceeds from the understanding that while "The L Word' ended in 2009 it manages to live on - in the lives of its fans, as well as in a new reality spin-off, "The Real L Word".
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78076-424-5 (9781780764245)
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Person
Dana Heller is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Old Dominion University. She writes about popular culture, television, queer studies, and most things considered to be in bad taste. A four-time Senior Fulbright Fellow, her books include Family Plots: The Deoedipalization of Popular Culture (1997), The Great American Makeover: Television History, Nation (2006), Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled (I.B.Tauris, 2007) and Hairspray (2011).
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
Loving and Losing: From The L Word to The 'R' Word
Dana Heller
Part 1: Lamentations
1 "Slip under my cloak of boringness. No one will even know we're gone."
Kim Ficera
2 The T Word: Transgender Representation in The L Word
Rebecca Beirne
3 The End of The L Word: Fan Pleasure or Fan Pain?
Faye Davies
Part 2: Laudations
4 Queering The L Word
Sal Renshaw
5 The Trouble With Shane: Lesbians and Polygamy
Heidi Schlipphacke
6 "L" is For Looking Again: Art and Representation on The L Word
Margaret T. McFadden
Part 3: Lineage
7 Trash, Trivia, and Testimony: From Pulp Novels to The L Word
Marnie Pratt
8 From the Bottom to West Hollywood: Finding Community in Sula and The L Word
Winnie McCroy
9 "No-Limits" Entertainment: All-Consuming Transgressions in Showtime's The L Word
Deborah E. R. Hanan
Part 4: Legacy
10 Imagining Queer Community in The L Word
Cristyn Davies and Kellie Burns
11 "The D Word"
Candace Moore
12 Why The Real L Word Matters: Community and Lesbian Sex, in the Flesh
Tara Shea Burke
The L Word: Character/Actor Guide
The L Word: The Complete Episode Guide
Film and TV Guide
Bibliography
Index
List of Contributors
Introduction
Loving and Losing: From The L Word to The 'R' Word
Dana Heller
Part 1: Lamentations
1 "Slip under my cloak of boringness. No one will even know we're gone."
Kim Ficera
2 The T Word: Transgender Representation in The L Word
Rebecca Beirne
3 The End of The L Word: Fan Pleasure or Fan Pain?
Faye Davies
Part 2: Laudations
4 Queering The L Word
Sal Renshaw
5 The Trouble With Shane: Lesbians and Polygamy
Heidi Schlipphacke
6 "L" is For Looking Again: Art and Representation on The L Word
Margaret T. McFadden
Part 3: Lineage
7 Trash, Trivia, and Testimony: From Pulp Novels to The L Word
Marnie Pratt
8 From the Bottom to West Hollywood: Finding Community in Sula and The L Word
Winnie McCroy
9 "No-Limits" Entertainment: All-Consuming Transgressions in Showtime's The L Word
Deborah E. R. Hanan
Part 4: Legacy
10 Imagining Queer Community in The L Word
Cristyn Davies and Kellie Burns
11 "The D Word"
Candace Moore
12 Why The Real L Word Matters: Community and Lesbian Sex, in the Flesh
Tara Shea Burke
The L Word: Character/Actor Guide
The L Word: The Complete Episode Guide
Film and TV Guide
Bibliography
Index