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Author Schulze, Katja, 1979- author.

Title The poetics and politics of invective humor : disparagement in contemporary female-led US sitcoms / Katja Schulze.

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Transcript, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (265 pages).
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Series American Culture Studies
American studies (Transcript (Firm))
Note Description based upon print version of record.
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
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
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.
Subject Situation comedies (Television programs) -- United States -- History and criticism.
Invective -- United States.
American wit and humor.
Political satire, American -- History and criticism.
Comédies de situation -- Histoire et critique -- États-Unis.
Invectives -- États-Unis.
Humour américain.
Satire politique américaine -- Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
American wit and humor
Invective
Political satire, American
Situation comedies (Television programs)
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Indexed Term America.
American Studies.
Culture.
Disparagement.
Humor.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Popular Culture.
Sitcom.
US Popular Culture.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Schulze, Katja The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor Bielefeld : transcript,c2022 9783837662603
ISBN 9783839462607 electronic book
3839462606 electronic book
9783837662603
3837662608
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