Television Comedy and Femininity

Queering Gender

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

1 919 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be ‘funny peculiar’ – playing the underdog or misfit – does a woman seem stranger in his place? Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television comedy gendered in specific ways? Paying attention to series which have not been addressed in academic work, as well as more established shows, White offers fresh insights for the fields of television studies, gender and women’s studies, cultural history and comedy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2018-08-30
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt431 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Gender and Popular Culture
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781784533625

Tillhör följande kategorier

Television inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik

Introduction Funny Peculiar: Queering Gender, Comedy and Television 1. Gracie, Martha, Eve and Lucy: Queering Femininity in Early American Television Comedy 2. Back to the Dollhouse? Queering Postfeminism in Contemporary American Sitcom 3. The Big Bang Theory: Queering Masculinity in American Sitcom?4. Smack the Pony: Feminist Negotiations in British Sketch Comedy5. Queering Age: Older Women in British Television Comedy

Dealing with the fascinating topic of female comedy on both sides of the Atlantic, White showcases such hilarious talents as Lucille Ball and Tina Fey and untethered programs such as 30 Rock and the British sketch comedy Smack the Pony ... What is good about White’s book is its wedding of British and American comedies, its recognition of the variable of age, and its celebration of women ... Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers and faculty.