Hysterical! : Women in American Comedy

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Mabel Normand: New Woman in the Flapper Age -- Chapter 2. Fay Tincher: Female Rowdiness and Social Change -- Chapter 3. Mae West: The Constant Sinner -- Chapter 4. Fanny Brice’s New Nose: Beauty, Ethnicity, and Limi...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Mabel Normand: New Woman in the Flapper Age -- Chapter 2. Fay Tincher: Female Rowdiness and Social Change -- Chapter 3. Mae West: The Constant Sinner -- Chapter 4. Fanny Brice’s New Nose: Beauty, Ethnicity, and Liminality -- Chapter 5. Lucille Ball and the Lucy Character: Familiarity, Female Friendship, and the Anxiety of Competence -- Chapter 6. Carol Burnett: Home, Horror, and Hilarity on The Carol Burnett Show -- Chapter 7. Lily Tomlin: Queer Sensibilities, Funny Feminism, and Multimedia Stardom -- Chapter 8. Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes: “I’ma Be Me” -- Chapter 9. Roseanne Barr: Remembering Roseanne -- Chapter 10. Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood: Queering Comic Genre Genealogies -- Chapter 11. Margaret Cho’s Army: “We Are the Baddest Motherfuckers on the Block” -- Chapter 12. Ellen DeGeneres’s Incorporate Body: The Politics of Authenticity -- Chapter 13. Sarah Silverman: Cuteness as Subversion -- Chapter 14. Tina Fey: “Quality” Comedy and the Body of the Female Comedy Author -- Chapter 15. Lena Dunham: Cringe Comedy and Body Politics -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung