ISBN:
9783839462607
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
American Culture Studies 39
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Situationskomödie
;
Fernsehserie
;
Frau
;
Beleidigung
;
Erniedrigung
;
Television; Sitcom; US Popular Culture; Humor; Disparagement; American Studies; Literature; Culture; Popular Culture; America; Literary Studies;
;
USA
;
Hochschulschrift
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 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.
URL:
https://elibrary.utb.de/doi/book/10.5555/9783839462607
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