• ISBN13: 9780367623418
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2023
• Pages: 244
• Original Price: GBP 38.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 354 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Media Studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / General, and Gender Studies

This timely collection of accessible essays interrogate queer television at the start of the twenty- first century. The complex political, cultural, and economic milieu requires new terms and conceptual frameworks to study television and media through a queer lens. Gathering a range of well-known scholars, the book takes on the relationship between sexual identity, desire, and television, breaking new ground in a context where existing critical vocabularies and research paradigms used to study television no longer hold sway in the ways they used to. The anthology sets out to confound conventional categories used to organize queer television scholarship, like "programming," "industry," "audience," "genre," and "activism." Instead, the anthology offers four interpretive frames - historicity, temporal play, ideological limitation and industrial contextualization - in the interest of creating new queer tools for studying digital television in the contemporary age.

This collection is suitable for scholars and students studying queer media studies, television studies, gender studies, and sexuality studies.

F. Hollis Griffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media and the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan, where he is also affiliated with the Digital Studies Institute and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. He is the author of Feeling Normal: Sexuality and Media Criticism in the Digital Age (2017), which was named an "Outstanding Academic Title" by CHOICE, the publication of the American Library Association. He has published research in Television and New Media, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, New Media & Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Communication, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Feminist Media Histories, and the anthologies Ryan Murphy's Queer America, The Companion to Reality Television and The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. He serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Television and New Media, Communication, Culture, & Critique, Film Criticism, and Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture. He has also served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, where he was Secretary.