Televising Queer Women A Reader

by Beirne, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780230340985
• ISBN10: 0230340989
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

With new and updated materials! This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows such as The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, E.R., Queer as Folk, Sex and the City, The L Wordand The O.C.. It also offers a critical introduction to queer women on television and to the scholarship that discusses such representation, and allows a framework for a multiplicity of viewpoints on a variety of topics and series.

Author Biography

Rebecca Beirne is a lecturer in Film, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium (2008), co-editor of Making Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand (with James Bennett, 2011) and has published multiple essays discussing queer representation in popular culture.

Table of Contents

A Critical Introduction to Queer Women on Television * Resisting, Reiterating, and Dancing Through: The Swinging Closet Doors of Ellen DeGeneres' Televised Personalities--Candace Moore * Mommy's Got a Gal-pal: The Victimized Lesbian Mother in the Made-for-TV-Movie--Kelly Kessler * Complicating the Open Closet: The Visual Rhetoric of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sapphic Lovers--Tanya Cochran * “Can You Just Be Kissing Me Now?”: The Question(s) of Willow in Buffy the Vampire Slayer--Cynthea Masson * States of Emergency: The Labors of Lesbian Desire in ER--Dana Heller * Mapping Lesbian Sexuality on Queer as Folk--Rebecca Beirne * A Label Like Gucci, Versace, or Birkenstock: Sex and the City and Queer Identity--Tabetha Adkins * â€œGoing Native on Wonder Woman's Island”: The Exoticization of Lesbian Sexuality in Sex and the City--Melissa M.M. Hidalgo * “This Is the Way We Live…and Love!”: Feeding on and Still Hungering for Lesbian Representation in The L Word--Marnie Pratt * â€œ[E]verything else is the same”: Configurations of The L Word--M. Catherine Jonet and Laura Anh Williams * “Shades of Grey”: Articulations of Bisexuality in The L Word--Jennifer Moorman * Paradigmatically Oppositional Representations: Gender and Sexual Identity in The L Word--Faye Davies * Pink Heels, Dildos, and Erotic Play: The (Re)Making of Fem(me)ininity in Showtime's The L Word--Erin Douglas * There's Something Queer Going on in Orange County: The Representation of Queer Women's Sexuality on The O.C.--Allison Burgess