Normporn : : Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us / / Karen Tongson.

An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Postmillennial Pop ; 38
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 16 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The New Normal Is the Old Normal
  • ONE thirtysomething’s “tiny little increments of life”
  • TWO An Intermezzo on Alternatives: From the 1990s to Normaling and Normcore
  • THREE Mainstreaming in True Blood
  • FOUR The Stars Are Hollow: Gilmore Girls at the End of Roe
  • FIVE This Is Us, This Is the End
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author