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The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor: Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led Us Sitcoms

The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor: Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led Us Sitcoms

Schulze, Katja

Paperback

Series: American Culture Studies

Literary CriticismTelevisionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3837662608
ISBN13: 9783837662603
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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