The Poetics And Politics Of Invective Humor: Disparagement In Contemporary Female-Led Us Sitcoms (American Culture Studies)

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.

• | Author: Katja Schulze
• | Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 3837662608
• | ISBN-13: 9783837662603