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Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty : Funny Looking.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Studies in Television SeriesPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (199 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780739197509
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly BettyDDC classification:
  • 791.45/72
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.77.U35 G77 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 With His Spatula in His Hand: Remaking Masculinity and Familia -- 2 First-Class Tickets to Mexico!: Laughing at Deportation -- 3 Life's a Drag: Identity as Queer Performance -- 4 Bringing Sexy Back: The Complexities of Latina Sexuality -- 5 Wake Up, Betty!: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the American Dream -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.
Summary: Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty expands the vista of critical approaches to comedy and representational politics on mainstream television from an interdisciplinary Latina/o studies approach. Each chapter examines the way the show uses humor and Latina/o camp to reframe socially charged issues on the show: representations of masculinity and familia, immigration, drag and queer subjectivities, Latina sexuality, and finally, a Latina feminist critique of the American Dream.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 With His Spatula in His Hand: Remaking Masculinity and Familia -- 2 First-Class Tickets to Mexico!: Laughing at Deportation -- 3 Life's a Drag: Identity as Queer Performance -- 4 Bringing Sexy Back: The Complexities of Latina Sexuality -- 5 Wake Up, Betty!: Feminism, Neoliberalism, and the American Dream -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.

Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty expands the vista of critical approaches to comedy and representational politics on mainstream television from an interdisciplinary Latina/o studies approach. Each chapter examines the way the show uses humor and Latina/o camp to reframe socially charged issues on the show: representations of masculinity and familia, immigration, drag and queer subjectivities, Latina sexuality, and finally, a Latina feminist critique of the American Dream.

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