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

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 disparagem...

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Beteilige Person: Schulze, Katja (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Bielefeld transcript Verlag [2022]
Schriftenreihe:American Culture Studies 39
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462607
Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (264 Seiten)
ISBN:9783839462607
DOI:10.1515/9783839462607