Television comedy and femininity : queering gender / Rosie White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Rosie, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Library of gender and popular culture ; 9.

Library of gender and popular culture ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role on television.

Situation comedies (Television programs)--Social aspects.

Situation comedies (Television programs).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.

Summary:

"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, Television Comedy and Femininity 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"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Funny peculiar: queering gender, comedy and television

Gracie, Martha, Eve and Lucy: queering femininity in early American television comedy

Back to the dollhouse? Queering postfeminism in contemporary American sitcom

The Big Bang Theory: queering masculinity in American sitcom

Smack the Pony: feminist negotiations in British sketch comedy

Queering age: older women in British television comedy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-223) and index.

ISBN:

9781788317498

1788317491

9781786736567

178673656X

9781786726506

1786726505

OCLC:

1139315266