Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Opening Sequence
1. Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom
2. In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities
3. Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities
4. Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities
5. Closing Sequence
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Films
Series
References
Introduction: Opening Sequence
1. Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom
2. In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities
3. Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities
4. Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities
5. Closing Sequence
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Films
Series
References
Product details
| Published | 24 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 248 |
| ISBN | 9781350473515 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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