Television Comedy and Femininity

Queering Gender

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Games, Board games, Performing Arts, Television, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
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Author: Rosie White ISBN: 9781786726506
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: November 30, 2018
Imprint: I.B. Tauris Language: English
Author: Rosie White
ISBN: 9781786726506
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: November 30, 2018
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Language: English

Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' – playing the underdog or misfit – does a woman seem stranger in his place?
Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television comedy gendered in specific ways? Paying attention to series which have not been addressed in academic work, as well as more established shows, White offers fresh insights for the fields of television studies, gender and women's studies, cultural history and comedy.

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Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' – playing the underdog or misfit – does a woman seem stranger in his place?
Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television comedy gendered in specific ways? Paying attention to series which have not been addressed in academic work, as well as more established shows, White offers fresh insights for the fields of television studies, gender and women's studies, cultural history and comedy.

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