The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor : : Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms / / Katja Schulze.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Schulze, Katja,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies ; 39
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Conceptual Impulses and Cultural Context --; 3. Invective Humor: Discourses of Otherness --; 4. Reflexive Invectivity: The Comedy of Super Niceness in Parks and Recreaction --; 5. Dynamizing Invectivity: The Role of Invectives in the Boundary Work of the Genre --; 6. Conclusion --; Bibliography
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839462607; 9783110767001; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783111025094; 9783110768510
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839462607
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Katja Schulze.

Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual comedy genre, Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come into view. Her study outlines case studies of popular sitcoms, like Parks and Recreation, Mike & Molly, and the revival of hit-sitcom Roseanne, thereby unearthing how the shows are able to stage humor as mass-mediated deprecation - a signifying practice with its own poetics and politics.