Hysterical! : : Women in American Comedy /

Hysterical! : : Women in American Comedy / / ed. by Linda Mizejewski, Victoria Sturtevant.

Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren’t funny. But today’s funny women aren’t a new phenomenon—they have g...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson Wagner, Kristen,
Brunovska Karnick, Kristine,
Haggins, Bambi,
Hatch, Kristen,
Havas, Julia,
Krefting, Rebecca,
Landay, Lori,
Leimbach, Joselyn K.,
Leonard, Suzanne,
Mcintyre, Anthony P.,
Mizejewski, Linda,
Rapf, Joanna E,
Rowe Karlyn, Kathleen,
Sturtevant, Victoria,
Sulimma, Maria,
Wanzo, Rebecca,
Weber, Brenda R.,
White, Rosie,
TeilnehmendeR:
Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe.
HerausgeberIn:
Mizejewski, Linda,
Sturtevant, Victoria,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2017
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. Mabel Normand: New Woman in the Flapper Age
  • Chapter 2. Fay Tincher: Female Rowdiness and Social Change
  • Chapter 3. Mae West: The Constant Sinner
  • Chapter 4. Fanny Brice’s New Nose: Beauty, Ethnicity, and Liminality
  • Chapter 5. Lucille Ball and the Lucy Character: Familiarity, Female Friendship, and the Anxiety of Competence
  • Chapter 6. Carol Burnett: Home, Horror, and Hilarity on The Carol Burnett Show
  • Chapter 7. Lily Tomlin: Queer Sensibilities, Funny Feminism, and Multimedia Stardom
  • Chapter 8. Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes: “I’ma Be Me”
  • Chapter 9. Roseanne Barr: Remembering Roseanne
  • Chapter 10. Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood: Queering Comic Genre Genealogies
  • Chapter 11. Margaret Cho’s Army: “We Are the Baddest Motherfuckers on the Block”
  • Chapter 12. Ellen DeGeneres’s Incorporate Body: The Politics of Authenticity
  • Chapter 13. Sarah Silverman: Cuteness as Subversion
  • Chapter 14. Tina Fey: “Quality” Comedy and the Body of the Female Comedy Author
  • Chapter 15. Lena Dunham: Cringe Comedy and Body Politics
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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