Television Studies in Queer Times

This timely collection of accessible essays interrogate queer television at the start of the twenty-first century.

Part I: Historicity: Placing Television Programming and Practices in Historical Context
1: "Queer Power: Multicultural Empowerment Narratives on Digital-Era TV," Ron Becker
2: "Briggs, Family, Queer," Melissa Hardie and Amy Villarejo
3: "In the Queer-View Mirror: Looking at 1991," Nick Salvato
4: "Like Living In a Different Time Zone": SBS's Queer Orientations," Robert Payne
Part II: Temporal Play: Queer Histories and Possibilities
5: "Making Things Perfectly Sketch: Reflexive Queer and Trans Themes in Sketch Comedy," Candace Moore
6: "Realizing Unrealizable Joy: Forming Queer Utopia in The Fathers Project," Hunter Hargraves
7: "Murdering Our Queer Past," Bridget Kies
8: "Obscure Temporalities: Dark and the Queering of Time Travel," Michael DeAngelis
Part III: Ideological Limitations: The Boundaries of What's Possible
9: "The Television-Industrial Closet," Julia Himberg
10: "TV's Ins and Outs, or (Bat) Signals and (Caped) Crusades," Lynne Joyrich
11: "How do Trans Men Make Babies? Transkids and Reproductive Fantasies," Slava Greenberg
12: "Queer Aesthetics in the Streaming Age," Jake Pitre
Part IV: Industrial Contextualization: Studying Production Processes
13: "Televising Lesbian Feminist Love-Politics on Dyke TV," Lauren Herold
14: "Producing Inclusion and Intersectionality: Queer Showrunners of Color in Contemporary Television," Sarah E. S. Sinwell
15: "Living in the Gray Area: Bisexual Resignifications in Desiree Akhavan's The Bisexual," Maria San Filippo
16: "Visual Pleasure and Video-Sharing Platforms: If I Was Your Girl and the Representation of Black Sexuality," Faithe J. Day