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I Know You Are, but What Am I? : On Pee-Wee Herman

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Forerunners: Ideas First SeriesPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (92 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781452972039
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: I Know You Are, but What Am I?. Druck-Ausgabe Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c2024DDC classification:
  • 791.45/72 23/eng/20240711
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.77.P379
Online resources: Summary: How Pee-wee and his playhouse help us reimagine our relationships to technology I Know You Are, but What Am I? explores the cultural legacy of Pee-wee Herman, the cult television star of Pee-wee's Playhouse. This children's show--that was also for adults--ran on network TV from 1986 to 1990 and starred comedian Paul Reubens as Herman, a queer man-boy whose playhouse, the set for the show, was tricked out with a profusion of animate computational toys and technologies. Cait McKinney shows how three defining scenes from the show inform, and even foretell and challenge, our present moment: the playhouse as an alternative precursor to networked smart homes that foregrounds caring and ethical relationships between humans and technologies; a reparative retelling of Reubens's career-wrecking 1991 arrest for indecent exposure inside a Florida adult film theater as part of an AIDS-phobic, antigay sting operation; and worn-out, Talking Pee-wee dolls and their broken afterlives on eBay and YouTube. McKinney looks at how queer people who were children in the 1980s remember and relate to Pee-wee now, showing that the moral panic about sexuality, gender, and children from the past can help us refute anti-trans and anti-queer political movements organized todayPPN: PPN: 1916251617Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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