Gay TV and Straight America by RonBecker Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-3689-7, ISBN: 0-8135-3689-8
""A highly engaging and impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in the destabilization of straight and gay identity." --Michael DeAngelis, DePaul University "Original and compelling . . . an example of the best kind of television scholarship. Gay TV and Straight America is a rare find." --Sasha Torres, author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights After years of relative silence on the su ..."
"For over 35 years, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" has greeted late night–TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of a mass of comedians including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Chris Farley, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Adam Sandler, among others. Week after week, SNL has produced unforgettable sketches and provocative political satire, adap ..."
"However, while NBC may have been unlikely to pursue strategic promotion
across its prime-time and late-night lineups, its interest in the series can be
productively understood in terms ofmanaging the marketplace for television
programming and an imperative to negotiate wouldbe counterclaims to identity
and authorityin the NBC and SNL brands. In network television, series are
developed by production companies— often in partnership w ..."
Even More Poems by RonBecker 154 Pages, Published 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1-5440-6288-4, ISBN: 1-5440-6288-5
"In the middle of this century's first decade, "bromance" emerged as a term denoting an emotionally intense bond between straight men. Yet bromance requires an expression of intimacy that always toys with being coded as something other than "straight" male behavior, even as it insists that such intimacy must never be misinterpreted. In Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television, editor Michael DeAngelis has com ..."
"Dan Quayle, “The Family Comes First,” Vital Speeches of the Day, 15 Septe 1992
, 711. Michael Omi, “Racialization in the Post-Civil Rights Era,” in Mapping Multic
alism, ed. Avery F. Gordon and Christopher Newfield (Minneapolis: Universi
Minnesota Press, 1996), 181. Charles A. Gallagher, “White Reconstruction in the
University.” Socialist Reviel nos. 1 and 2 (1994): 165. Gitlin, Tivilight, 125. Linda
Martin Alcoff, “What Should Whit ..."
"Get to the heart of fake news and brush up on your media literacy skills as you explore the media landscape of today, and where it all came from, using the current and relevant research found in Media & Culture."
"As film reviewer Patrick Goldstein points out, “Many of the best buddy films spring
into high gear when the filmmaker introduces a dramatic irritant, usually in the
form of a beautiful, free-spirited woman who sparks the flame of romantic conflict.
... That John endured a largely unhappy marriage to May, especially in
comparison with Max's happy years with Amy, whom he meets on the rebound,
makes no difference in terms of the feud ..."
Gay TV and Straight America by RonBecker Digital, 283 Pages, Published 2006 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-280-94713-1, ISBN: 1-280-94713-6
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