Introduction : the importance of gay-themed TV
Straight panic and American culture in the 1990s
Thinking about gay people : civil rights and the confusion over
sexual identity
Network narrowcasting and the slumpy demographic
The affordable, multicultural politics of gay chic
Gay material and prime-time network television in the 1990s
"We're not gay!" : heterosexuality and gay-themed programming
Straight panic in the 2000s
Ron Becker is an assistant professor of communications at Miami University in Ohio.
"From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and
impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in
the destabilization of straight and gay identity."
*DePaul University*
"An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book."
*professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook*
"Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation
and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of
the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight
America is a rare find."
*author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil
Rights*
"From beginning to end, this book is a highly engaging and
impeccably researched study of the cultural anxieties produced in
the destabilization of straight and gay identity."
*DePaul University*
"An insightful, well-written, and well-argued book."
*professor of sociology, SUNY at Stony Brook*
"Becker's analysis of the connections between sexual representation
and industrial strategy is original and compelling. An example of
the best kind of television scholarship, Gay TV and Straight
America is a rare find."
*author of Black, White and In Color: Television and Black Civil
Rights*
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