The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
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The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor

Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor

Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
transcript Verlag
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9783837662603
eBook ISBN
9783839462607
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. Conceptual Impulses and Cultural Context
  6. 3. Invective Humor: Discourses of Otherness
  7. 4. Reflexive Invectivity: The Comedy of Super Niceness in Parks and Recreaction
  8. 5. Dynamizing Invectivity: The Role of Invectives in the Boundary Work of the Genre
  9. 6. Conclusion
  10. Bibliography