Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender

by Rosie White

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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 past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1784533629

ISBN13:9781784533625

Release Date:November 2018

Publisher:I. B. Tauris & Company

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"

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