The Art Of Problem Solving 101 by Michael Sloan

The Art Of Problem Solving 101 by Michael Sloan

An irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like>Gilmore Girls and>This Is Us>

After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of cry-along sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are?

Revisiting soothing network dramedies like>Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn>mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Karen Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a new normal and flash lifestyle trends like normcore, even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn>allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows--of love, life, death, and loss--are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic.

Normporn>asks, what are queers to do--what is anyone to do, really--when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as--or precisely because--it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have. .

Sloan, Michael: - Michael Sloan is a retired Air Force Veteran who served for more than 24 years. He has had assignments to bases in Ohio, Florida, Oklahoma, and California. He also served twice overseas in Germany and deployed or forward deployed in support of six different operations. His experiences in the military and as a father have led him down the path of Author... Who would have known it would be YA Fantasy! His debut novel, Leo Kane: Journey through the Veil, transports readers to a myriad of lands, realms, and worlds that are the culmination of his travels and vivid imagination. He currently lives in Florida with his wife.

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ISBN 13	9781539591436
ISBN 10	1539591433
Title	The Art Of Problem Solving 101
Author	Michael Sloan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Year published	2016-10-17
Number of pages	108
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