Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire

by Amy Villarejo

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822355116
• ISBN13: 9780822355113
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.3" x 8.0"