Join us for a Chats in the Stacks book talk with Amy Villarejo, professor and chair in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell. Her new book Ethereal Queer (Duke University Press, January 2014) offers an account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s.

Challenging the widespread view that LGBT characters did not make a sustained appearance on television until the 1980s, she draws on network archives to reveal queer television’s lengthy, rich, and varied history. Villarejo is also the author of Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire (Duke University Press, 2003) and Film Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2 edition 2013). She is coauthor of the BFI Film Classics volume Queen Christina and coeditor of Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies.

This event is hosted by Olin Library. Buffalo Street Books will offer books for purchase and signing, and light refreshments served. 

Come early and take a short walk down the corridor to Kroch Library to see the exhibition Speaking of Sex, celebrating Cornell’s Human Sexuality Collection, on view until Oct. 11.