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 .
Edited by:
Dana Heller
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 135mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 302g
ISBN: 9781780764245
ISBN 10: 1780764243
Series: Reading Contemporary Television
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 March 2013
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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).
