The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor

The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
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Publisher : transcript Verlag
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9783839462607
ISBN-13 : 3839462606
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Book Synopsis The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor by : Katja Schulze

Download or read book The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor written by Katja Schulze and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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