Horrible White People : : Gender, Genre, and Television's Precarious Whiteness / / Taylor Nygaard, Jorie Lagerwey.
Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and sufferingAt the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleak...
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| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Authors’ Note, or, a Note on Being Horrible
- Introduction: The Fraying Fantasies of White Supremacy
- 1. Peak TV and the Spreadability of Transatlantic Horrible White People
- 2. Alternative Families and White Fragility: The Politics of the Dystopian Sitcom
- 3. Emergent Feminisms and Racial Discourses of Televisual Girlfriendship
- 4. Diverse Quality Comedies in an Era of White Precarity
- Conclusion: NFL Protests and White Supremacy in the Mass Market
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Horrible White People Shows and Diverse Quality Comedies Synopses
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Authors