Author : Katja Schulze
Release : 2022-11-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 606/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor by : Katja Schulze
Download or read book The Poetics and Politics of Invective Humor written by Katja Schulze. This book was released on 2022-11-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.