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Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender

Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender

White, Rosie
Nally, Claire
Smith, Angela

Hardcover

Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture

TelevisionGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Board Games

ISBN10: 1784533629
ISBN13: 9781784533625
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Nov 30 2018
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' - playing the underdog or misfit - does a woman seem stranger in his place?
Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television comedy gendered in specific ways? Paying attention to series which have not been addressed in academic work, as well as more established shows, White offers fresh insights for the fields of television studies, gender and women's studies, cultural history and comedy.

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