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
Chapter 1. Opening Sequence
Chapter 2. The (Dis-)Advantages of the Sitcom
Chapter 3. Waiting for God and Sexualities
Chapter 4. Homosociality and Later Life (Male) Sexualities
Chapter 5. Vicious and Queer Sexualities
Chapter 6. Closing Sequence
Bibliography
Chapter 2. The (Dis-)Advantages of the Sitcom
Chapter 3. Waiting for God and Sexualities
Chapter 4. Homosociality and Later Life (Male) Sexualities
Chapter 5. Vicious and Queer Sexualities
Chapter 6. Closing Sequence
Bibliography
Product details
| Published | 24 Jul 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| 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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