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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bielefeld, Germany :
transcript Verlag
[2022]
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | American Culture Studies
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009800229906719 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783839462607 |
