The Resource Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics, by Linda Mizejewski
Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics, by Linda Mizejewski
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- Summary
- 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, most 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. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians--no matter what they look like--have ended up on the other side of "pretty," enabling them to make it to the top and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 266 pages
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781477307601
- Label
- Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics
- Title
- Pretty/funny
- Title remainder
- women comedians and body politics
- Statement of responsibility
- by Linda Mizejewski
- Title variation
- Women comedians and body politics
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, most 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. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians--no matter what they look like--have ended up on the other side of "pretty," enabling them to make it to the top and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Mizejewski, Linda
- Dewey number
- 792.702/8092
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Griffin, Kathy
- Fey, Tina
- Cho, Margaret
- Silverman, Sarah
- Sykes, Wanda
- DeGeneres, Ellen
- Women comedians
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- Feminism
- Racism
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- Racism
- Women comedians
- United States
- Label
- Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics, by Linda Mizejewski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn856861152
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9781477307601
- Lccn
- 2013030223
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40023414019
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)856861152
- Label
- Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics, by Linda Mizejewski
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocn856861152
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- x, 266 pages
- Isbn
- 9781477307601
- Lccn
- 2013030223
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40023414019
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)856861152
Subject
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)
- trueFeminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- United States
- trueFeminism
- trueFey, Tina, 1970-
- Griffin, Kathy
- Racism
- Cho, Margaret
- trueSilverman, Sarah
- Sykes, Wanda
- United States
- Women comedians
- Women comedians -- United States
- trueRacism -- United States
- trueDeGeneres, Ellen
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