Television comedy and femininity : queering gender / Rosie White.

"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...

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Uniform Title:Library of gender and popular culture ; 9.
Main Author: White, Rosie, 1964- (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : I. B. Tauris, 2018.
Series:Library of gender and popular culture ; 9.
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Physical Description:xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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. 
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