Description
| Product ID: | 9781789387513 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Lesbians on Television |
| Subtitle: | New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal |
| Authors: | Author: Kate McNicholas Smith |
| Page Count: | 206 |
| Subjects: | Television, Television, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Women’s health, Gay & Lesbian studies, Women's health |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In Lesbians on Television, Kate McNicholas Smith maps concurrent contemporary shifts in lesbian visibility within popular media, focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America. Central to these shifts has been a re-imagining of queer lives - or a ''new queer visibility'' - as LGBTQ+ characters have become increasingly visible within popular culture. A PDF version of this book is available for free in Open Access: Lesbians on Television. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License and is part of Knowledge Unlatched. The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. This book offers a unique and layered account of the complex dynamics in the modern moment of social change, drawing together critical, social and cultural theory as well as empirical research, which includes interviews and multi-platform media analyses. This original new study puts forward a much-needed analysis of twenty-first century television and lesbian visibility. Books addressing the representation of lesbians have tended to focus on film; analysis of queer characters on television has usually focused on representations of gay males. Other recent books have attempted to address lesbian, gay and trans representation together, with the result that none are examined in sufficient detail – here, the exclusive focus on lesbian representation allows a fuller discussion. Until now, much of the research on lesbian and gay representation has tended to employ only textual analysis. The combination of audience research with analysis in this book brings a new angle to the debates, as does the critical review of the tropes of lesbian representation. The earlier stereotypes of pathological monsters and predators are discussed alongside the more recent trends of ‘lesbian chic’ and ‘lesbianism as a phase’. |
| Imprint Name: | Intellect Books |
| Publisher Name: | Intellect Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-02-17 |
