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Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty: Funny Looking

Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty: Funny Looking

González, Tanya
Rodriguez y. Gibson, Eliza

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Series: Critical Studies in Television

TelevisionGeneral ReferenceLatino Studies

ISBN10: 0739197517
ISBN13: 9780739197516
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jul 20 2017
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty: Funny Looking expands the vista of critical approaches to comedy and representational politics on mainstream television from an interdisciplinary Latina/o studies approach. González and Rodriguez y Gibson examine how Ugly Betty uses humor and Latina/o camp to reframe socially charged issues on the show: representations of masculinity and familia, immigration, drag and queer subjectivities, Latina sexuality, and finally, a Latina feminist critique of the American Dream. Ugly Betty moves beyond the binaries of traditional representational politics and opens a vista of critical possibility applicable to all mainstream texts that portray people of color through comedy. This work will be of interest to scholars in media studies, Latina/o studies, and communication studies.

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