Camp TV: trans gender queer sitcom history

by Miller, Quinlan

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Title Statements

Full title :Camp TV : trans gender queer sitcom history / by Quinlan Miller.

Summary

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.

Camp TV and queer gender : sitcom history -- Queer gender and Bob Cummings : Hollywood camp TV -- Marriage schmarriage : sex and the single person -- Trans camp TV : methods for girl history -- Conclusion: Around-the-clock queer gender : digital camp TV.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 220 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781478003397, 1478003391
DOI:10.1215/9781478003397
oclc:on1158300514
LC Classification:PN1992.8.C66
Dewey Decimal:791.456/53

Subjects

Comédies de situation -- Histoire et cr… Criticism, interpretation, etc Gender identity on television Gender nonconformity on television History Homosexualité et télévision -- Histoire… Homosexuality and television Homosexuality and television -- History… Identité sexuelle à la télévision Situation comedies (Television programs) Situation comedies (Television programs… Télévision -- Aspect social -- 20e sièc… Television -- Social aspects Television -- Social aspects -- 20th ce… Transgender people in popular culture Transgender people in popular culture -… Transgenres dans la culture populaire -… Transgenrisme à la télévision United States