Review: The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, by Alfred L. Martin Jr.

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Book Review| December 01 2021 Review: The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, by Alfred L. Martin Jr. The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, by Alfred L. Martin Jr. Brandy Monk-Payton Brandy Monk-Payton BRANDY MONK-PAYTON is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies and a member of the affiliate faculty in African & African American Studies at Fordham University. Her work has been published in edited collections such as Unwatchable and From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry as well as in the journals Film Quarterly, Women’s Studies in Communication, Feminist Media Histories, and Communication, Culture and Critique. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar BOOK DATA Alfred L. Martin Jr., The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. $70.16 cloth, $23.99 paper, $14.74 e-book. 242 pages. Film Quarterly (2021) 75 (2): 120–121. https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.75.2.120 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Brandy Monk-Payton; Review: The Generic Closet: Black Gayness and the Black-Cast Sitcom, by Alfred L. Martin Jr.. Film Quarterly 1 December 2021; 75 (2): 120–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fq.2021.75.2.120 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentFilm Quarterly Search You do not currently have access to this content.