Feminist Comedy
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Author |
: Yael Kohen |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2012-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374287238 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374287236 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis We Killed by : Yael Kohen
Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
Author |
: Judy Little |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 1983-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0803228597 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780803228597 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Comedy and the Woman Writer by : Judy Little
Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty?perhaps the impossibility?of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women. Comedy and the Woman Writer responds to both these concerns of recent criticism: feminist literary theory and theories of comedy. Judy Little develops a critical apparatus for identifying feminist comedy in recent fiction, especially the radical political and psychological implications of this comedy, and then applies and tests her theory by examining the novels of Virginia Woolf and Muriel Spark. Despite recent scholarly attention to Woolf, the profound comedy of her work has been largely overlooked, and the comic fiction of Spark has seldom had the responsible and attentive criticism that it deserves. The introductory chapter draws upon anthropology and sociology, as well as literary criticism and the fiction of feminist writers such as Woolf, Doris Lessing, and Monique Wittig, to define a modern feminist comedy. Four central chapters then explore the implications of this comedy in the novels of Woolf and Spark. Little distinguishes between, on the one hand, several varieties of traditional comedy and satire and, on the other, the festive or ?liminal? comedy to which feminist comedy belongs. Both Woolf and Spark mock centuries-old mythic patterns and behaviors deriving from basic social norms, as well as the values emerging from these norms. It is one thing, the author points out, to find ?manners? amusing, to scourge vices, or to mock the follies of lovers; it is a much more drastic act of the imagination to mock the very norms against which comedy has traditionally judged vices, follies, and eccentricities. While the comedy of Woolf and Spark has some precedent in festive or liminal celebrations, during which even basic values and behavior are abandoned, feminist comedy displays its radical nature by implying that there is no resolution to the inverted overturned world, the world in revolutionary transition. The final chapter considers briefly, in the light of the critical model of feminist comedy, the work of several other twentieth-century writers, including Jean Rhys, Penelope Moritmer, and Margaret Drabble. The presence of radical comedy in the fiction of these and other writers suggests the need for continuing attention to the theory of feminist comedy proposed in this study.
Author |
: Katelyn Hale Wood |
Publisher |
: University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages |
: 206 |
Release |
: 2021-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781609387723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1609387724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cracking Up by : Katelyn Hale Wood
Laughter in the Archives: Jackie "Moms" Mabley -- I Love You Bitches Back: Spect-Actors and Affective Freedom in I Coulda Been Your Cellmate! -- The Black Queer Citizenship of Wanda Sykes -- Contemporary Truth-Tellers: A New Cohort of Black Feminist Comics -- Conclusion.
Author |
: Anna Frey |
Publisher |
: Demeter Press |
Total Pages |
: 125 |
Release |
: 2021-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781772583182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1772583189 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Who’s Laughing Now? by : Anna Frey
From dour old women to buzzkills who can't take a joke, the stereotype of the humourless feminist has repeatedly been deployed to derail and delegitimize the women's rights movement. This collection skips the tired debates that ask whether feminists can be funny—we know the answer to this already—to instead investigate contemporary expressions and functions of humour within international feminist movements and communities. This interdisciplinary volume showcases critical analyses of cultural texts and events, personal accounts of producing and encountering feminist humour, and creative interruptions that pair laughter with insight. As a whole, this work seeks to sideline caricatures of the humourless feminist by promoting a vision of a diverse movement vibrant with innovative, generous, threatening, and, ultimately, triumphant laughter.
Author |
: Anna Fields |
Publisher |
: Arcade |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2017-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1510718362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781510718364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Girl in the Show by : Anna Fields
For fans of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer—and every other “funny woman”—comes a candid feminist comedy manifesto exploring the sisterhood between women’s comedy and women’s liberation. “I’m not funny at all. What I am is brave.” —Lucille Ball From female pop culture powerhouses dominating the entertainment landscape to memoirs from today’s most vocal feminist comediennes shooting up the bestseller lists, women in comedy have never been more influential. Marking this cultural shift, The Girl in the Show provides an in-depth exploration of how comedy and feminism have grown hand in hand to give women a stronger voice in the ongoing fight for equality. From I Love Lucy to SNL to today’s rising cable and web-series stars, Anna Fields’ entertaining retrospective combines amusing and honest personal narratives with the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the feminist movement. With interview subjects like Abbi Jacobson, Molly Shannon, Mo Collins, and Lizz Winstead among others—as well as actresses, stand-up comics, writers, producers, and female comedy troupes—Fields shares true stories of wit and heroism from some of our most treasured (and under-represented) artists. At its heart, The Girl in the Show captures the urgency of our continued struggle towards equality, allowing the reader to both revel in—and rebel against—our collective ideas of “women’s comedy.”
Author |
: Joanne R. Gilbert |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814328032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814328033 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Performing Marginality by : Joanne R. Gilbert
An academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.
Author |
: Willow White |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2024-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781644533420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1644533421 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Feminist Comedy by : Willow White
Feminist Comedy: Women Playwrights of London identifies the eighteenth-century comedic stage as a key site of feminist critique, practice, and experimentation. While the history of feminism and comedy is undeniably vexed, by focusing on five women playwrights of the latter half of the eighteenth century--Catherine Clive, Frances Brooke, Frances Burney, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald--this book demonstrates that stage comedy was crucial to these women’s professional success in a male-dominated industry and reveals a unifying thread of feminist critique that connects their works. Though male detractors denied women’s comic ability throughout the era, eighteenth-century women playwrights were on the cutting edge of comedy and their work had important feminist influence that can be traced to today’s stages and screens.
Author |
: Maggie Hennefeld |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 359 |
Release |
: 2018-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231547062 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231547064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes by : Maggie Hennefeld
Women explode out of chimneys and melt when sprayed with soda water. Feminist activists play practical jokes to lobby for voting rights, while overworked kitchen maids dismember their limbs to finish their chores on time. In early slapstick films with titles such as Saucy Sue, Mary Jane’s Mishap, Jane on Strike, and The Consequences of Feminism, comediennes exhibit the tensions between joyful laughter and gendered violence. Slapstick comedy often celebrates the exaggeration of make-believe injury. Unlike male clowns, however, these comic actresses use slapstick antics as forms of feminist protest. They spontaneously combust while doing housework, disappear and reappear when sexually assaulted, or transform into men by eating magic seeds—and their absurd metamorphoses evoke the real-life predicaments of female identity in a changing modern world. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes reveals the gender politics of comedy and the comedic potentials of feminism through close consideration of hundreds of silent films. As Maggie Hennefeld argues, comedienne catastrophes provide disturbing but suggestive images for comprehending gendered social upheavals in the early twentieth century. At the same time, slapstick comediennes were crucial to the emergence of film language. Women’s flexible physicality offered filmmakers blank slates for experimenting with the visual and social potentials of cinema. Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes poses major challenges to the foundations of our ideas about slapstick comedy and film history, showing how this combustible genre blows open age-old debates about laughter, society, and gender politics.
Author |
: Linda Mizejewski |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 403 |
Release |
: 2014-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292756939 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292756933 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pretty/Funny by : Linda Mizejewski
“A totally engaging read [and] a fascinating look at the diversity and range of female comics . . . by an author who herself obviously has a sense of humor.” —Joanna E. Rapf, coeditor of The Blackwell Companion to Film Comedy Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars—and often they’ve been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don’t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women’s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.
Author |
: Audrey Bilger |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814330541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814330548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Laughing Feminism by : Audrey Bilger
An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.