Making Things Perfectly Queer

Interpreting Mass Culture

By: Alexander Doty

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Paperback | 14 June 1993

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As a concept, "queerness" describes a cultural common ground between gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and other non-straights, but it also suggests a diverse and often uncategorizable cultural space that is everywhere in mass culture. Whether recognized or denied, queerness is an approach to mass culture that is shared by people with every kind of sexual self-definition. In "Making Things Perfectly Queer", Alexander Doty argues that films, television, and other forms of mass culture consistently elicit a wide range of queer responses, and suggests a framework for interpreting mass culture that stands as a corrective for many standard cultural approaches. Doty demonstrates how queer readings can be - and are - performed by examining star images like "Jack Benny" and "Pee-wee Herman", women-centered sitcoms like "Laverne and Shirley" and "Designing Women", film directors like George Cukor and Dorothy Arzner, and genres like the musical. In developing these readings, he suggests that queerness, not straightness, just might be the most pervasive sexual dynamic at work in mass culture production and reception.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Makes Queerness Most?
There's Something Queer Here	p. 1
Whose Text Is It Anyway? Queer Cultures, Queer Auteurs, and Queer Authorship	p. 17
I Love Laverne and Shirley. Lesbian Narratives, Queer Pleasures, and Television Sitcoms	p. 39
The Gay Straight Man: Jack Benny and The Jack Benny Program	p. 63
The Sissy Boy, the Fat Ladies, and the Dykes: Queerness and/as Gender in Pee-wee's World	p. 81
Afterword: "You Flush It, I Flaunt It!"	p. 97
Notes	p. 105
Index	p. 137
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