The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor - Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms
Verlag | transcript |
Auflage | 2022 |
Seiten | 264 |
Format | 14,9 x 1,8 x 22,7 cm |
Gewicht | 402 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
Reihe | American Culture Studies 39 |
ISBN-10 | 3837662608 |
EAN | 9783837662603 |
Bestell-Nr | 83766260A |
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.