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: | English |
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Bielefeld
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2022, 2022
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| Series: | American Culture Studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 265 pages |
| ISBN: | 3837662608 9783837662603 |