Pretty/Funny : : Women Comedians and Body Politics / / Linda Mizejewski.
Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write an...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Pretty/Funny Women and Comedy’s Body Politics: Funniness, Prettiness, and Feminism
- Chapter One. Kathy Griffin and the Comedy of the D List
- Chapter two. Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: Picturing Tina Fey
- Chapter three. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and “a Mouth Full of Blood Laughs”
- Chapter four. Margaret Cho Is Beautiful: A Comedy of Manifesto
- Chapter five. “White People Are Looking at You!” Wanda Sykes’s Black Looks
- Chapter six. Ellen DeGeneres: Pretty Funny Butch as Girl Next Door
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index