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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schulze, Katja, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, 2022.
Colección:American studies (Transcript (Firm))
Temas:
Situation comedies (Television programs) > United States > History and criticism.
Invective > United States.
American wit and humor.
Political satire, American > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Invective.
Political satire, American.
Situation comedies (Television programs)
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Methodology
  • 1.2 Structure
  • 2. Conceptual Impulses and Cultural Context
  • 2.1 American Culture and the Invective
  • 2.2 Humor and the Invective
  • 2.3 Situation Comedies and the Invective
  • 3. Invective Humor: Discourses of Otherness
  • 3.1 Invective Fools in Mike & Molly
  • 3.2 Ceasing to 'Do' Female: Auto-Invective Comedy from Phyllis Diller to 2 Broke Girls
  • 4. Reflexive Invectivity: The Comedy of Super Niceness in Parks and Recreaction
  • 4.1 The Invective Logic of Serial Outbidding
  • 4.2 Michael Schur's Œuvre: From Postmodern Cynicism to the Metamodern Belief in Human Interconnection
  • The Office
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Brooklyn 99
  • The Good Place
  • 4.3 Why We Hate Jerry Gergich: Selective Disparagement in Super Nice Sitcoms
  • Parks and Recreation's Jerry Gergich
  • Brooklyn 99's Hitchcock and Scully
  • 5. Dynamizing Invectivity: The Role of Invectives in the Boundary Work of the Genre
  • 5.1 Embarrassment as an Invective Strategy in the Mockumentary Sitcoms The Comeback and Parks and Recreation
  • 5.2 Deconstructing the Dramedy: Invective Structures in the Fusion of Drama and Comedy in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • 5.3 Reviving Roseanne: Capitalizing Nostalgia and Invectives in Times of the Trump Presidency
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Works Cited
  • Television Shows and Films Cited

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