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Gay TV and straight America /

After decades of silence on the subject of homosexuality, television in the 1990s saw a striking increase in programming that incorporated and, in many cases, centered on gay material. In shows including "Friends", "Seinfeld", "Party of Five", "Homicide", &quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Becker, Ron, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the importance of gay-themed TV
  • Straight panic and American culture in the 1990s
  • Thinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over sexual identity
  • Network narrowcasting and the slumpy demographic
  • The affordable, multicultural politics of gay chic
  • Gay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s
  • "We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programming
  • Straight panic in the 2000s.