You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television by Garside, Emily

You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television

From the show's modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You Are My Happy Ending tells the...
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You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television by Garside, Emily

You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television

$58.90

You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt's Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television

$58.90
Author: Emily Garside
Format: Paperback
Language: English

From the show's modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You Are My Happy Ending tells the story of how Schitt's Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships.

Cultural analyst Emily Garside shows how this series fused classic romcom and sitcom tropes to create a world with a queer love story at its core, starting with Daniel Levy, the co-creator who plays David. She examines the show's Canadian identity and its diverse incorporation of references from literature (Brideshead Revisited) to cinema (Hitchcock's The Birds), as well as numerous romantic comedy texts. Schitt's Creek is an homage to all these elements of the past literary and cinematic canon while also creating an important contemporary narrative of its own. Most importantly, Garside delves into the references to queer icons and culture--from Cabaret to drag.

How did this supposedly light comedy embrace an activist perspective? And how does it use (and subvert) its romantic-comedy genre in order to make that activism even more powerful? Combining a fan's affection with a scholar's insight, Garside explains how this "little show that could" is the product of a long history of queer activism, breaking down barriers and marking a turning point in future representation of LGBTQ stories.



Author: Emily Garside
Publisher: Applause Books
Published: 01/15/2024
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781493067978

About the Author
As a journalist and academic with experience in history, theatre, and film studies, Emily Garside has a wide range of experience in cultural analysis. She has worked for the National Theatre as a consultant on their 2017 production of Angels in America. She teaches at University of Wolverhampton and Bishopsgate Institute, and is also a facilitator for the National Theatre and Sherman Theatre.

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