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Pretty/funny [electronic resource] : women comedians and body politics / by Linda Mizejewski.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (278 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780292756922
  • 0292756925
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 792.702/8092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1590.W64 M59 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics: -- Funniness, prettiness, and feminism -- kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list -- Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey -- Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs" -- Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto -- "White people are looking at you!" wanda Sykes's black looks -- Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics: -- Funniness, prettiness, and feminism -- kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list -- Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey -- Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs" -- Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto -- "White people are looking at you!" wanda Sykes's black looks -- Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.

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