Homosexuality on the Small Screen

Television and Gay Identity in Britain

Dr Sebastian Buckle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2018
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-850-7 (ISBN)

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Television provides a unique account of the development of a homosexual identity across the western world, emerging as it did when ideas around sex and sexuality were themselves only just beginning to be publicly discussed. From the very earliest surviving drama featuring homosexuality in 1959, Homosexuality on the Small Screen explores each decade's programming in turn, looking at homosexual themes, storylines, and characters, situating them historically, and relating them to the broader events in British history. By doing so it examines the interactions between the medium and the reality of gay lives, showing how television mirrored the changes taking place in British society. For those with a homosexual - or emerging homosexual - sexual orientation, they were seminal in early personal and social development. For heterosexual viewers, these images were equally important in exploring a sexual other which otherwise remained hidden from them. They included positive storylines which helped improve public ideas about homosexuality, but also stereotypical images which propagated negative attitudes in the public consciousness.
Homosexuality on the Small Screen charts this fascinating journey and television's role in the construction of a gay identity.

Sebastian Buckle gained his PhD in History and LGBT Studies at the University of Southampton. He is a blogger, writer and researcher on British queer history and the author of The Way Out: A History of Homosexuality in Modern Britain (I.B.Tauris, 2015).

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: A social problem
Chapter 2: Defining sexuality
Chapter 3: Securing a subculture
Chapter 4: Positive Images
Chapter 5: The burden of representation
Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.11.2018
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 218 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-78453-850-7 / 1784538507
ISBN-13	978-1-78453-850-7 / 9781784538507
Zustand	Neuware