Mon, Apr 28, 2008, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Location:
Communications 150 (Studio C)
This talk approaches a pivotal moment of queer television history, the appearance of the first openly gay man on American television (in 1973, An American Family), through some reflection on the convergence of queer and televisual times. Looking backward from the last episode of An American Family, occasioned by the death of Lance in 2001, I explore the repeated action of coming out in relation to television seriality.
Talk sponsored by the Film & Digital Media Department and supported by Porter College Visiting Artists and Lecturers.