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The complete and groundbreaking "The L Word" is now out on DVD and this book makes the perfect companion, covering the series in its entirety. "Loving The L Word" picks up where Reading "The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television" (I.B. Tauris, 2006) left off. With new, updated chapters by many of the same television writers and scholars who contributed to the first volume, as well as essays by some newcomers, "Loving The L Word" explores the series' quantum contribution to the ongoing evolution of queer television. Whether you loved "The L Word", hated it, or loved to hate it, this book recognizes that the show transformed the post-Ellen LGBT television landscape, fulfilling a long-neglected, visceral desire for lesbian stories and images. In the process, it reshaped the communities that follow and talk about queer television and care about the narratives and characters that drive it. Including complete Character/Actor, Film/TV and Episode guides, the book also proceeds from the understanding that while "The L Word' ended in 2009 it manages to live on - in the lives of its fans, as well as in a new reality spin-off, "The Real L Word".

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction Loving and Losing: From The L Word to The 'R' Word Dana Heller Part 1: Lamentations 1 “Slip under my cloak of boringness. No one will even know we're gone.” Kim Ficera 2 The T Word: Transgender Representation in The L Word Rebecca Beirne 3 The End of The L Word: Fan Pleasure or Fan Pain? Faye Davies Part 2: Laudations 4 Queering The L Word Sal Renshaw 5 The Trouble With Shane: Lesbians and Polygamy Heidi Schlipphacke 6 “L” is For Looking Again: Art and Representation on The L Word Margaret T. McFadden Part 3: Lineage 7 Trash, Trivia, and Testimony: From Pulp Novels to The L Word Marnie Pratt 8 From the Bottom to West Hollywood: Finding Community in Sula and The L Word Winnie McCroy 9 “No-Limits” Entertainment: All-Consuming Transgressions in Showtime's The L Word Deborah E. R. Hanan Part 4: Legacy 10 Imagining Queer Community in The L Word Cristyn Davies and Kellie Burns 11 “The D Word” Candace Moore 12 Why The Real L Word Matters: Community and Lesbian Sex, in the Flesh Tara Shea Burke The L Word: Character/Actor Guide The L Word: The Complete Episode Guide Film and TV Guide Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Dana Heller is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Old Dominion University. She writes about popular culture, television, queer studies, and most things considered to be in bad taste. A four-time Senior Fulbright Fellow, her books include Family Plots: The Deoedipalization of Popular Culture (1997), The Great American Makeover: Television History, Nation (2006), Makeover Television: Realities Remodelled (I.B.Tauris, 2007) and Hairspray (2011).


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  • ISBN-13: 9780857721716
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: I.B. Tauris
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Reading Contemporary Television
  • ISBN-10: 0857721712
  • Publisher Date: 09 Apr 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Sub Title: The Complete Series in Focus


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