Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender by White, Rosie

Television Comedy and Femininity Queering Gender (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784533625)

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Format: Hardcover
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Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender by White, Rosie

Television Comedy and Femininity Queering Gender

$130.00
Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender by White, Rosie

Television Comedy and Femininity Queering Gender

$130.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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 Lucyto The Big Bang Theoryand Smack the Ponyto 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.

Author: Rosie White
ISBN-10: 1784533629
ISBN-13: 9781784533625
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2018
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2019
By Rosie White
By Rosie White
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Rosie White is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Theory and Popular Culture at Northumbria University, Newcastle, U.K. She is author of Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture (2008) and numerous articles on feminism and women in film and television.

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