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Hysterical! : women in American comedy /
Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women aren't a new phenome...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant
- Mabel Normand : new woman in the flapper age / Kristine Brunovska Karnick
- Fay Tincher : female rowdiness and social change / Joanna E. Rapf
- Mae West : the constant sinner / Kristen Hatch
- Fanny Brice's new nose : beauty, ethnicity, and liminality / Kristen Anderson Wagner
- Lucille Ball and the Lucy character : familiarity, female friendship, and the anxiety of competence / Lori Landay
- Carol Burnett : home, horror, and hilarity on the Carol Burnett show / Linda Mizejewski
- Lily Tomlin : queer sensibilities, funny feminism, and multimedia stardom / Suzanne Leonard
- Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes : "I'ma be me" / Bambi Haggins
- Roseanne Barr : remembering Roseanne / Rosie White
- Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood : queering comic genre genealogies / Rebecca Wanzo
- Margaret Cho's army : "we are the baddest motherfuckers on the block" / Rebecca Krefting
- Ellen Degeneres's incorporate body : the politics of authenticity / Brenda R. Weber and Joselyn K. Leimbach
- Sarah Silverman : cuteness as subversion / Anthony P. Mcintyre
- Tina Fey : "quality" comedy and the body of the female comedy author / Julia Havas
- Lena Dunham : cringe comedy and body politics / Maria sulimma.