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02839aam a2200469 i 4500 001 359107E6440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 230821t20242024ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023026657 020 $a 1478025891 020 $a 9781478025894 020 $a 1478030143 020 $a 9781478030140 035 $a (OCoLC)1381547393 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ZQP $d YDX $d OCLCO $d UKOBU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 10 $a PN1992.8.C66 $b L38 2024 082 00 $a 791.45/6170973 $2 23/eng/20230913 100 1 $a Lavery, Grace E., $e author. 245 10 $a Closures : $b heterosexuality and the American sitcom / $c Grace Lavery. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2024. 300 $a xiv, 110 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "Closures surveys the seven-decade history of the American sitcom from the perspective of trans theory. With detailed close readings of shows from The Mary Tyler Moore Show to Who's the Boss to Third Rock from the Sun, Friends, BoJack Horseman, The Office, and others, Grace E. Lavery highlights the centrality of the blended family narrative that situates the family as a perpetually incomplete project as well as the weakening of social ties as the sitcom evolves from a family setting to a friendship group to a workplace setting. The book's title refers to how episodic narrative closure in the serialized sitcom paradoxically requires a continual reopening of the stable family, disrupting the traditional finality of the comedic marriage plot. In this way, the sitcom character, operating in a situation of endless becoming, is rendered structurally trans"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Full House -- Friends -- Parallels. 650 0 $a Situation comedies (Television programs) $z United States $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Situation comedies (Television programs) $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Sex role on television. 650 0 $a Heterosexuality. 650 0 $a Homosexuality on television. 650 7 $a Heterosexuality $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00955788 650 7 $a Homosexuality on television $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00959836 650 7 $a Sex role on television $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114658 650 7 $a Situation comedies (Television programs) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01744318 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lavery, Grace E. $t Closures $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 $z 9781478059134 $w (DLC) 2023026658 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240717020143.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=359107E6440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search