{"product_id":"ethereal-queer-9780822355113","title":"Ethereal Queer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthereal Queer\u003c\/i\u003e offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amy Villarejo, already an important and increasingly influential voice in the fields of film theory, gender, and sexuality, here presents a dramatically new intervention in both television theory and debates over queer representation. \u003ci\u003eEthereal Queer\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond concerns about visibility and positive images to provide valuable ways of understanding the force of television in the twentieth century, bringing media studies and continental philosophy into vibrant and productive dialogue.\"—\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Sconce\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eSleaze Artists: Cinema at the Margins of Taste, Style, and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]n engaging, brilliant, and meticulous account of queerness, temporality, and television. The book abounds with fundamental insights . . .\" -- T. E. Adams * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Elegantly written, often witty and even moving, this thought-provoking book is both tightly focused and ambitious in its approach to television and queerness. Amy Villarejo offers brilliant insights into theoretical and televisual texts, repeatedly providing new ways of confronting and moving beyond the intersection of sexuality and television.\"—\u003cb\u003ePatricia White\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor of English Literature and Film Studies, Swarthmore College\u003cbr\u003e\"[P]arts of \u003ci\u003eEthereal Queer\u003c\/i\u003e are excellent-- particularly when it comes to Villarejo's apt dissection of recent Western Media conglomeration and how it has impacted television spectatorship.\" -- Anna Hamilton * Bitch *\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether she's citing Theodor Adorno or Amistead Maupin, pondering \u003ci\u003eOur Miss Brooks\u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eAmerican Family\u003c\/i\u003e, Amy Villarejo channels her lifelong love of television while at the same time analyzing its function as a 'pragmatic pedagogy of queer life.' I couldn't ask for a better TV Guide than this set of gripping meditations that dares to dream so brilliantly on our behalf.\"\u003cb\u003e—B. Ruby Rich\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The brilliance of Villarejo’s argument is that she shows that prior to the increase of open LGBT characters on television, closeted or one-off queer characters represented an act of survival, representation, and identity that television lacked.... Villarejo’s thesis proves worthy of tuning into and remembering for a long time to come.\" -- John Erickson * Lambda Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e“A fine exploratory entry into the intersection between television studies and queer theory….Villarejo offers nuanced and sustained meditations on her aptly titled ethereal subject matter….Wholly readable and at times quite enjoyable (Villarejo’s own occasional autobiographical notes are well served by her engaging prose), \u003ci\u003eEthereal Queer\u003c\/i\u003e emerges as a probing undertaking that sketches out possible methods and approaches to queer representation in that ever-shifting medium of television.” -- Manuel Betancourt * Film Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e“Villarejo explodes the parameters of genre studies, queer historiography, and the identity politics of “representational justice” to put forward a theoretical meditation on temporality, wherein queer identity and televisual presentation inform, indeed constitute, each other but themselves only ever appear as ethereal (4, 5).... \u003ci\u003eEthereal Queer \u003c\/i\u003eadvances the postidentitarian impulses of these other volumes on intricate intellectual grounds without falling into the “queering” of anything not strictly heteronormative.” -- Heather N. Lukes * Women's Studies Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEthereal Queer\u003c\/i\u003e’s robust philosophical interventions undoubtedly enrich and challenge ongoing discussions in queer and media studies about how television’s 'prosthetic lifeworlds' constantly refigure sexuality and gender. Let’s not be shy: Villarejo’s book is a showstopper.\" -- Candace Moore * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Adorno's Antenna 30\u003cbr\u003e 2. Excursus on Media and Temporality 66\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"Television Ate My Family\": Lance Loud on TV 81\u003cbr\u003e 4. Queer Ascension: Television and Tales of the City 122\u003cbr\u003e Coda: Becoming 152\u003cbr\u003e Notes 163\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 185\u003cbr\u003e Index 195","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138191655255,"sku":"9780822355113","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822355113.jpg?v=1751918380","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethereal-queer-9780822355113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}