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The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor: Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms
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Abstract 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... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Literatur; Kultur; Popkultur; Humor; Fernsehen; USA
Klassifikation
Rundfunk, Telekommunikation
sonstige Geisteswissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Television; Sitcom; US Popular Culture; Disparagement; American Studies; America; Literary Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
264 S.
Schriftenreihe
American Culture Studies, 39
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839462607
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-6260-7
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet