Camp TV

Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History

Quinlan Miller (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0303-8 (ISBN)

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Sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s are widely considered conformist in their depictions of gender roles and sexual attitudes. In Camp TV Quinlan Miller offers a new account of the history of American television that explains what campy meant in practical sitcom terms in shows as iconic as The Dick Van Dyke Show as well as in more obscure fare, such as The Ugliest Girl in Town. Situating his analysis within the era's shifts in the television industry and the coalescence of straightness and whiteness that came with the decline of vaudevillian camp, Miller shows how the sitcoms of this era overflowed with important queer representation and gender nonconformity. Whether through regular supporting performances (Ann B. Davis's Schultzy in The Bob Cummings Show), guest appearances by Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly, or scripted dialogue and situations, industry processes of casting and production routinely esteemed a camp aesthetic that renders all gender expression queer. By charting this unexpected history, Miller offers new ways of exploring how supposedly repressive popular media incubated queer, genderqueer, and transgender representations.

Quinlan Miller is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon.

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Trans Gender Queer: New Terms for TV History 1
1. Camp TV and Queer Gender: Sitcom History 27
2. Queer Gender and Bob Cummings: Hollywood Camp TV 55
3. Marriage Schmarriage: Sex and the Single Person 88
4. Trans Camp TV: Methods for Girl History 131
Conclusion. Around-the-Clock Queer Gender: Digital Camp TV 155
Notes 165
Bibliography 197
Index 211

Erscheinungsdatum	26.07.2018
Reihe/Serie	Console-ing Passions
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-0303-0 / 1478003030
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0303-8 / 9781478003038
Zustand	Neuware