Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics /

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Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing, such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts, have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mizejewski, Linda (Auteur)
Format: Publication officielle Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 2014.
Édition:First edition.
Sujets:
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Women comedians > United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > United States.
Racism > United States.
Femmes comiques > États-Unis.
Beauté féminine (Esthétique) > États-Unis.
Racisme > États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
Racism
Women comedians
Komikerin
Fernsehsendung
Feminismus
Schönheitsideal
United States
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics:
  • Funniness, prettiness, and feminism
  • kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list
  • Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey
  • Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs"
  • Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto
  • "White people are looking at you!" wanda Sykes's black looks
  • Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.

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