Television comedy and femininity: queering gender

"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 year...

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1. Verfasser: White, Rosie 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York I.B. Tauris 2018
Schriftenreihe:Library of gender and popular culture 9
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Zusammenfassung:"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, Television Comedy and Femininity 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"--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:XIII, 226 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9781784533625

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