Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms

Franziska Röber is Research Associate at TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Opening Sequence 1. Conventionally Unconventional: The Sitcom2. In The Back Of A Mini: Waiting For God And Later Life Sexualities3. Pretty Fly For Two Old Guys: Homosociality And Later Life (Male) Sexualities4. Walking Into Elton John's Closet: Vicious And Queer Sexualities5. Closing Sequence BIBLIOGRAPHY Films Series References

This highly rewarding book offers fresh insights for any reader concerned with ageing, sexuality and screen representations. Offering a well theorized and thoughtful study of British sitcoms, the book’s explorations of comedic performance effectively refute the reduction of sexuality to heteronormative penile penetration and highlights a wide range of physical intimacies enacted between and within gender categories that effectively transgress established expectations of older characters.