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Pretty/Funny
Women Comedians and Body Politics
Linda Mizejewski
- 279 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
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Pretty/Funny
Women Comedians and Body Politics
Linda Mizejewski
Ă propos de ce livre
"A totally engaging read [and] a fascinating look at the diversity and range of female comics... by an author who herself obviously has a sense of humor." âJoanna E. Rapf, coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become starsâand often they've been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don't all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women's comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.
Foire aux questions
Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Pretty/Funny Women and Comedyâs Body Politics: Funniness, Prettiness, and Feminism
- One. Kathy Griffin and the Comedy of the D List
- Two. Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: Picturing Tina Fey
- Three. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and âa Mouth Full of Blood Laughsâ
- Four. Margaret Cho Is Beautiful: A Comedy of Manifesto
- Five. âWhite People Are Looking at You!â Wanda Sykesâs Black Looks
- Six. Ellen DeGeneres: Pretty Funny Butch as Girl Next Door
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index