Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms

AvFranziska Röber,Ulla Kriebernegg

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.Focusing on three representative sitcoms - Waiting for God, The Old Guys and Vicious - it demonstrates the ways in which sitcoms specifically enable and restrict representations of later life sexualities. Tracing how transgressive portrayals of sexually active older adults are couched in comedic terms, it opens up new critical perspectives on later life sexualities that will critically inform public debates and academic research – in Britain and beyond.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350473546

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Radio / podcasts inom Kultur
Åldrandets psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

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Franziska Röber is Research Associate at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

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This highly rewarding book offers fresh insights for any reader concerned with ageing, sexuality and screen representations. Offering a well theorized and thoughtful study of British sitcoms, the book’s explorations of comedic performance effectively refute the reduction of sexuality to heteronormative penile penetration and highlights a wide range of physical intimacies enacted between and within gender categories that effectively transgress established expectations of older characters.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Introduction: Opening Sequence 1. Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom2. In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities3. Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities4. Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities5. Closing Sequence BIBLIOGRAPHY Films Series References