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Pretty/Funny : Women Comedians and Body Politics.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292756922
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pretty/FunnyDDC classification:
  • 792.702/8092
LOC classification:
  • PN1590
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Pretty/Funny Women and Comedy's Body Politics: Funniness, Prettiness, and Feminism -- 1. Kathy Griffin and the Comedy of the D List -- 2. Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: Picturing Tina Fey -- 3. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and "a Mouth Full of Blood Laughs" -- 4. Margaret Cho Is Beautiful: A Comedy of Manifesto -- 5. "White People Are Looking at You!": Wanda Sykes's Black Looks -- 6. Ellen DeGeneres: Pretty Funny Butch as Girl Next Door -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Pretty/Funny Women and Comedy's Body Politics: Funniness, Prettiness, and Feminism -- 1. Kathy Griffin and the Comedy of the D List -- 2. Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: Picturing Tina Fey -- 3. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and "a Mouth Full of Blood Laughs" -- 4. Margaret Cho Is Beautiful: A Comedy of Manifesto -- 5. "White People Are Looking at You!": Wanda Sykes's Black Looks -- 6. Ellen DeGeneres: Pretty Funny Butch as Girl Next Door -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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