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"How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics is the first book to explore television in all its scope and complexity – its industry, production, texts, audiences, pleasures and politics – in relation to queerness. With contributions from distinguished authors working in film/television studies and the study of gender/sexuality, it offers a unique contribution to both disciplines. An introductory chapter by the editors charts the key debates and issues addressed within the book, followed by three sections, each central to an understanding of the relationships between queerness and television: 'theories and approaches', histories and genres', and 'television itself'. Individual essays examine the relationships between queers, queerness, and television across the multiple sites of production, consumption, reception, interpretation and theorisation, as well as the textual and aesthetic dimensions of television and the televisual. The book crucially moves beyond lesbian and gay textual analyses of specific TV shows that have often focussed on evaluations of positive/negative representations and identities. Rather, the essays in Queer TV theorise not just the queerness in/on television (the production personnel, the representations it offers) but also the queerness of television as a distinct medium." --

Homosexuality and television. --- Homosexuality on television. --- Sexual minorities on television

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"Queer, la télévision? À en croire certains éditocrates excédés, il serait désormais impossible d’ouvrir la télé sans y voir toutes les couleurs de l’arc-en-ciel. S’il est vrai que la diversité sexuelle et la complexité des genres sont de plus en plus représentées à la télévision, les efforts déployés par les Netflix de ce monde pour rester en phase avec les attentes du public sont souvent suspects... et incomplets. Que signifient au juste ces nouvelles représentations? Peut-on faire confiance à un média qui cherche avant tout à engranger des profits? La télévision peut-elle être queer ?" --

Sexual minorities on television --- Sexual minorities in mass media --- Sexual orientation --- Gender identity in mass media

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"In Ethereal Queer, Amy Villarejo offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s. Challenging the widespread view that LGBT characters did not make a sustained appearance on television until the 1980s, she draws on innovative readings of TV shows and network archives to reveal queer television’s lengthy, rich, and varied history. Villarejo goes beyond concerns about representational accuracy. She tracks how changing depictions of queer life, in programs from Our Miss Brooks to The L Word, relate to transformations in business models and technologies, including modes of delivery and reception such as cable, digital video recording, and online streaming. In so doing, sheprovides a bold new way to understand the history of television." --

Homosexuality on television. --- Gays in popular culture --- Television programs --- Sexual minorities on television --- Social aspects --- Gay people in popular culture

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"Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea of the ‘global gay’, what we find today is a range of historically and culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are reflected and explored across an ever increasing range of media outlets. This collection zooms in on a number of facets of this kaleidoscope, each chapter discussing the intersection of a particular European context and a particular medium with its affordances and limitations. While traditional mass media form the starting point of this book, the primary focus is on digital media such as blogs, social media and online dating sites. All contributions are based on recent, original empirical research, using a plethora of qualitative methods to offer a holistic view on the ways media matter to particular LGBTQ individuals and communities. Together the chapters cover the diversity of European countries and regions, of LGBTQ communities, and of the contemporary media ecology. Resisting the urge to extrapolate, they argue for specificity, contextualisation and a provincialized understanding of the connections between media, culture, gender and sexuality." --

Sexual minorities in mass media. --- Mass media --- Minorités sexuelles dans les médias. --- Médias --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Social aspects. --- Europe. --- Sexual minorities on television --- Transgender people in mass media. --- Gender nonconformity on television.

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"In Screening Queer Memory, Anamarija Horvat examines how LGBTQ history has been represented on-screen, and interrogates the specificity of queer memory. She poses several questions: How are the pasts of LGBTQ people and communities visualised and commemorated on screen? How do these representations comment on the influence of film and television on the construction of queer memory? How do they present the passage of memory from one generation of LGBTQ people to another? Finally, which narratives of the queer past, particularly of the activist past, are being commemorated, and which obscured? Horvat exemplifies how contemporary British and American cinema and television have commented on the specificity of queer memory - how they have reflected aspects of its construction, as well as participated in its creation. In doing so, she adds to an under-examined area of queer film and television research which has privileged concepts of nostalgia, history, temporality and the archive over memory. Films and television shows explored include Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (1996), Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine (1998), Jill Soloway's Transparent (2014), Matthew Warchus' Pride (2014) and Tom Rob Smith's London Spy (2015)"--

Homosexuality in motion pictures. --- Homosexuality on television. --- Queer theory. --- Sex role in motion pictures. --- Sex role on television. --- Sexual minorities in motion pictures. --- Sexual minorities on television. --- Transgender people in motion pictures. --- Gender identity on television. --- Homosexualité et cinéma.