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%T The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor: Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms %A Schulze, Katja %P 264 %V 39 %D 2022 %I transcript Verlag %K Television; Sitcom; US Popular Culture; Disparagement; American Studies; America; Literary Studies %@ 2747-4380 %@ 978-3-8394-6260-7 %~ transcript Verlag %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-93217-3 %U https://www.transcript-verlag.de/shopMedia/openaccess/pdf/oa9783839462607.pdf %X 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. %C DEU %C Bielefeld %G en %9 Monographie %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info