Cargando…
Women and comedy : history, theory, practice /
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the United States, and Europe in an interdisciplinary collection of essays to chart the future of critical inquiry in gender and comedy studies.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | , , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Madison : Lanham, Maryland :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2014]
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Regina Barreca
- Introduction: Dorothy Parker's Headache / Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman
- Laughing Aphrodite / Laurie O'Higgins
- Comedy in Ancient Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain the Jokes Without Killing Them? / Barbara Gold
- Mary and Her Sisters / Anne Higgins
- Feminist Humor Without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle Ages / Lisa Perfetti
- Laugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd Control in Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Prologues and Epilogues / Diana Solomon
- Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon / Linda A. Morris
- The Business of British Burlesque / Jacky Bratton
- The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of Burlesque / Joanna Mansbridge
- Elsie and Doris Waters: Four Songs / Paul Matthew St. Pierre
- "I'm Daphne": On the Comedy of Cross-Dressing and Metamorphosis in Wilder's Some Like It Hot, Lubitsch's I Don't Want to Be a Man, and Ovid's / Metamorphoses / Kay Young
- Biting the Hand That Feeds Her: Patronage and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Theater / Gilli Bush-Bailey
- Out of the Box: Comedy in Disability Theater by Canadian Women / Kirsty Johnston
- Humoring the Female Pol: Irony, Consciousness-Raising, and "Third-Culture" Discourse / Tarez Samra Graban
- A Cautionary Tale: Ann Coulter and the Failure of Humor / Sean Zwagerman
- Lesbian Stand-Up Comics and the Politics of Laughter / Joanne Gilbert
- Layla Siddiqui as Holy Fool in Little Mosque on the Prairie / Shannon Hengen
- Postmodernity and the Gendered Uses of Political Satire / Lisa Colletta
- Coda: Try This at Home / Peter Dickinson.