Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History

Quinlan Miller

Published by Duke University Press 2019

Camp TV

Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History

Quinlan Miller

In the series Console-ing passions: television and cultural power

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003397

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About this book

Quinlan Miller reframes American television history by tracing a camp aesthetic and the common appearance of trans queer gender characters in both iconic and lesser known sitcoms throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Author / Editor information

Quinlan Miller is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon.

Reviews

"Camp TV offers us theoretical and methodological challenges to presumptions and argumentations common in queer media histories…hence the usefulness here of a new terminology entirely. What the book also offers, however, is an impressive model of full-scale approach to queer media histories."

-- Taylor Cole Miller New Review of Film and Television Studies

"A revelatory historical reassessment of US network sitcom of the 1950s and 1960s.… Miller combines scholarly rigor with the engaged, politicized vivacity of a subversive connoisseur and the banter of a raconteur in order to rewrite dominant histories of the sitcom, camp, and LGBTQIA+ media representation.… A tour de force abounding with compelling and witty textual analyses fueled by painstaking archival research."

-- Ken Feil Journal of Cinema and Media Studies

"A detailed picture of the production and cultural contexts of queer gender appearance in sitcoms, ranging from non-conforming dress and gestures to critiques of heterosexual marriage."

-- Katharine Mussellam Jump Cut

"[Camp TV] is impressive and provides a necessary re-reading of neglected and devalued texts that cast our present studies of contemporary queerness into provocative question. . . . This book will be a valuable contribution to courses in television history, queer studies and, especially, studies of the queer in popular culture, and will be an antidote to institutional narratives that have solidified unproductively around the ‘newness’ of queer TV."

-- Judith Fathallah Critical Studies in Television

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Trans Gender Queer: New Terms for TV History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Camp TV and Queer Gender: Sitcom History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
2. Queer Gender and Bob Cummings: Hollywood Camp TV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. Marriage Schmarriage: Sex and the Single Person Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
4. Trans Camp TV: Methods for Girl History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
Conclusion. Around-the-Clock Queer Gender: Digital Camp TV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Illustrations
- Other: 28 illustrations

eBook

Published: April 4, 2019
ISBN: 9781478003397