Television Studies in Queer Times

Queer Television at the Start of the Twenty-First Century is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sexual identity, desire, and television in the contemporary age. It challenges conventional categories and offers four interpretive frames to create new queer tools for studying digital television. The anthology is relevant for scholars and students in queer media studies, television studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This timely collection of accessible essays interrogates queer television at the start of the twenty-first century, recognizing the complex political, cultural, and economic milieu that demands new terms and conceptual frameworks to study television and media through a queer lens. The book brings together a diverse range of well-known scholars who explore the intricate relationship between sexual identity, desire, and television, challenging existing critical vocabularies and research paradigms that have traditionally been used to study television. By challenging conventional categories such as "programming," "industry," "audience," "genre," and "activism," the anthology offers four interpretive frames—historicity, temporal play, ideological limitation, and industrial contextualization—to create new queer tools for studying digital television in the contemporary age.

The anthology's contributions are organized into four sections, each exploring different aspects of queer television. The first section, "Historicity," examines the historical roots and evolution of queer television, exploring how it has been shaped by social, political, and cultural contexts. The second section, "Temporal Play," explores how queer television engages with temporal dynamics, such as repetition, delay, and montage, to create unique storytelling techniques. The third section, "Ideological Limitation," examines how queer television challenges and subverts mainstream ideologies and representations, offering alternative perspectives and narratives. The fourth section, "Industrial Contextualization," explores the relationship between queer television and the broader media industry, including issues of funding, distribution, and commercialization.

This collection is an invaluable resource for scholars and students studying queer media studies, television studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies. It provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the complex and multifaceted nature of queer television in the twenty-first century. By challenging traditional frameworks and offering new interpretive tools, the anthology contributes to the growing body of literature on queer media and offers valuable insights into the ways in which television shapes and reflects our understanding of gender, sexuality, and identity.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367623418