{"product_id":"camp-tv-9781478001850","title":"Camp TV","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuinlan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCamp TV\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Ken Feil * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eCamp TV\u003c\/i\u003e] 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Trans Gender Queer: New Terms for TV History  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Camp TV and Queer Gender: Sitcom History  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Queer Gender and \u003ci\u003eBob Cummings\u003c\/i\u003e: Hollywood Camp TV  55\u003cbr\u003e 3. Marriage Schmarriage: Sex and the Single Person  88\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trans Camp TV: Methods for \u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e History  131\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Around-the-Clock Queer Gender: Digital Camp TV  155\u003cbr\u003e Notes  165\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  197\u003cbr\u003e Index  211","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408972194135,"sku":"9781478001850","price":90.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478001850.jpg?v=1730504917","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/camp-tv-9781478001850","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}