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First and foremost, I would like to thank Annie Martin and Jane Hoehner at Wayne State University Press, and Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, the editors of the TV Milestones Series, for their kindness and continued support of this project. I would also like to thank the anonymous readers of the manuscript and my copyeditor, Kirsten Patey Hurd, for their many helpful suggestions. To properly acknowledge the teachers, colleagues, friends, and family members who helped make this book possible—some of whom fit into all of these categories at once—would require another book still. Let it just be said that I am deeply indebted to the following people (and many more, to be sure) for their varied expertise in education, provocation, commiseration, and/or celebration: Anna McCarthy, Daphne A. Brooks, Brian Price, Bill Simon, Jeffrey Sconce, Hugh Manon, John David Rhodes, Rob Cavanagh, Racquel Gates, Ceridwen Morris, Sam Lipsyte, Phil Hallman, Mike Graziano, Margo Miller, Elizabeth Nathanson, Ernesto Laclau, Mimi White, Lynn Spigel, Scott Curtis, Bambi Haggins , Lucia Saks, Olga Pyrozhenko, Carol Mason, Lindsey ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Claire Smith, Sam Robertson, Scott Krzych, my comrades in the Stonewall Theory Circle, Sally Mills and Tom Bowman, Lisa and Andrew Hurayt, Betty and Henry Philler, Eva Hurayt, Anna and Matt Hullum, Leslee Shaw and Meredith Bell, the entire Mills-Beach-Bowman-Morgan-BlackwoodKelly -Philler tribe, and my lovely new colleagues at Oklahoma State University. A few people who are listed above deserve to be named at least twice. Betty and Henry Philler, to whom this book is dedicated, are inimitable, and to be imitated. Sally Mills, my mother, is surely from another universe, and I am most proud to call myself one of her people—especially if that entitles me to a share of her courage, tenacity, and boundless joie de vivre. Tom Bowman deserves an actual medal for his patience and kindness. Andy and Lisa Hurayt provided steady encouragement . Last of all—and most of all—I must thank Brian Price. Brian Price. Brian Price. Is there anyone else in all the world? x Acknowledgments ...

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