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Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender
Contributor(s): White, Rosie (Author)
ISBN: 1784533629     ISBN-13: 9781784533625
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
OUR PRICE:   $128.70  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Games & Activities | Board Games
- Performing Arts | Television - General
- Social Science | Gender Studies
Dewey: 791.456
LCCN: 2022363138
Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages
 
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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.