[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Books on Television

[Donald Boozer]

The following books pertaining to the performing arts are now available =

from the Literature Department at Cleveland Public Library=2E=2E=2E
The Literature Department is located on the second floor of the Main =

Library=2C downtown Cleveland=2C at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue=
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Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog to reserve =

any of these titles=2E For more information=2C visit our location=2C call=
 216-
623-2881=2C or email us at =93literature =3Cat=3E cpl=2Eorg=2E=94

Gay TV and Straight America=2E
Ron Becker=2E
Rutgers University Press=2C 2006=2E
(PN1992=2E8=2EH65 B43 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0813536898
(Link includes cover art)
=93After years of relative silence on the subject of homosexuality=2C =

television in the 1990s saw a striking increase in gay material=2E=2E=2ER=
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Becker draws on a wide range of political and cultural indicators to =

explain this sudden upsurge of gay material on prime-time network =

television=2E=94 -- from the book jacket

Reading The L Word=3A Outing Contemporary Television=2E
Edited by Kim Akass and Janet McCabe=2E
I=2EB=2E Tauris=2C 2006=2E
(PN1992=2E77=2EL27 R43 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D1845111796
=93Reading the L Word is the first book about this television phenomenon=2E=
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With an introduction by Sarah Warn=2C the founder of premier lesbian =

entertainment website=2C AfterEllen=2Ecom=2C and a foreword by Eve Kosofs=
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Sedgwick=2C the collection brings together leading academics=2C feminist =

critics=2C scholars and award-winning journalists to discuss The L Word=2E=
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There is also a complete episode guide as well as a series of =

interviews with =5Bsome of=5D the actors=2E=2E=2E=94 -- from the book jac=
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Programming Our Lives=3A Television and American Identity=2E
Walter Cummins and George Gordon=2E
Praeger Publishers=2C 2006=2E
(PN1992=2E6 =2EC863 2006)
http=3A//www=2Ecpl=2Eorg/cgi-bin/lookup=2Epl=3Fisbn=3D0275990206
(Link includes cover art and table of contents)
=93In this timely examination of television and American identity=2C =

Cummins and Gordon take readers on an informed walk through the changes =

that TV has already wrought =96 and those still likely to confront us=2E=94=
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from the book jacket

Remember=2C books highlighted here can be borrowed through any CLEVNET =

library with the touch of a button=2E Whether you=27re from Cleveland=2C =

Sandusky=2C Twinsburg=2C or Wadsworth=2C just place a hold through the li=
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Donald Boozer
Subject Department Librarian
Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue=2C Cleveland=2C OH 44114
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216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
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