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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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American Culture Studies |
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American studies (Transcript (Firm))
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Methodology -- 1.2 Structure -- 2. Conceptual Impulses and Cultural Context -- 2.1 American Culture and the Invective -- 2.2 Humor and the Invective -- 2.3 Situation Comedies and the Invective -- 3. Invective Humor: Discourses of Otherness -- 3.1 Invective Fools in Mike & Molly -- 3.2 Ceasing to 'Do' Female: Auto-Invective Comedy from Phyllis Diller to 2 Broke Girls -- 4. Reflexive Invectivity: The Comedy of Super Niceness in Parks and Recreaction -- 4.1 The Invective Logic of Serial Outbidding |
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4.2 Michael Schur's Œuvre: From Postmodern Cynicism to the Metamodern Belief in Human Interconnection -- The Office -- Parks and Recreation -- Brooklyn 99 -- The Good Place -- 4.3 Why We Hate Jerry Gergich: Selective Disparagement in Super Nice Sitcoms -- Parks and Recreation's Jerry Gergich -- Brooklyn 99's Hitchcock and Scully -- 5. Dynamizing Invectivity: The Role of Invectives in the Boundary Work of the Genre -- 5.1 Embarrassment as an Invective Strategy in the Mockumentary Sitcoms The Comeback and Parks and Recreation |
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5.2 Deconstructing the Dramedy: Invective Structures in the Fusion of Drama and Comedy in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel -- 5.3 Reviving Roseanne: Capitalizing Nostalgia and Invectives in Times of the Trump Presidency -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Television Shows and Films Cited |
| Summary |
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 |
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America |
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American Studies |
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Culture |
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Disparagement |
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Humor |
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Literary Studies |
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Literature |
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Popular Culture |
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Sitcom |
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US Popular Culture |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Situation comedies (Television programs) -- United States -- History and criticism
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Invective -- United States
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American wit and humor.
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Political satire, American -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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American wit and humor
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Invective
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Political satire, American
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Situation comedies (Television programs)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783839462607 |
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3839462606 |
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