The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor
Disparagement in Contemporary Female-Led US Sitcoms
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Have you ever wondered about who you are laughing at when watching your favorite sitcom? And the social and political implications thereof? This study gives unexpected and unsettling answers.
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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Katja Schulze
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Television Television Sitcom Sitcom US Popular Culture US Popular Culture Humor Humor Disparagement Disparagement American Studies American Studies Literature Literature Culture