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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women aren't a new phenomenon--they have generations of hysterically funny foremothers. Fay Tincher's daredevil stunts, Mae West's linebacker walk, Lucille Ball's manic slapstick, Carol Burnett's athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres's tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg's sly twinkle, and Tina Fey's acerbic wit all paved the way for contemporary unruly women, whose comedy upends the norms and ideals of women's bodies and behaviors. Hysterical Women in American Comedy delivers a lively survey of women comics from the stars of the silent cinema up through the multimedia presences of Tina Fey and Lena Dunham. This anthology of original essays includes contributions by the field's leading authorities, introducing a new framework for women's comedy that analyzes the implications of hysterical laughter and hysterically funny performances. Expanding on previous studies of comedians such as Mae West, Moms Mabley, and Margaret Cho, and offering the first scholarly work on comedy pioneers Mabel Normand, Fay Tincher, and Carol Burnett, the contributors explore such topics as racial/ethnic/sexual identity, celebrity, stardom, censorship, auteurism, cuteness, and postfeminism across multiple media. Situated within the main currents of gender and queer studies, as well as American studies and feminist media scholarship, Hysterical masterfully demonstrates that hysteria--women acting out and acting up--is a provocative, empowering model for women's comedy.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens reproductive roles and rights.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women aren't a new phenomenon--they have generations of hysterically funny foremothers. Fay Tincher's daredevil stunts, Mae West's linebacker walk, Lucille Ball's manic slapstick, Carol Burnett's athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres's tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg's sly twinkle, and Tina Fey's acerbic wit all paved the way for contemporary unruly women, whose comedy upends the norms and ideals of women's bodies and behaviors. Hysterical Women in American Comedy delivers a lively survey of women comics from the stars of the silent cinema up through the multimedia presences of Tina Fey and Lena Dunham. This anthology of original essays includes contributions by the field's leading authorities, introducing a new framework for women's comedy that analyzes the implications of hysterical laughter and hysterically funny performances. Expanding on previous studies of comedians such as Mae West, Moms Mabley, and Margaret Cho, and offering the first scholarly work on comedy pioneers Mabel Normand, Fay Tincher, and Carol Burnett, the contributors explore such topics as racial/ethnic/sexual identity, celebrity, stardom, censorship, auteurism, cuteness, and postfeminism across multiple media. Situated within the main currents of gender and queer studies, as well as American studies and feminist media scholarship, Hysterical masterfully demonstrates that hysteria--women acting out and acting up--is a provocative, empowering model for women's comedy.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward womens reproductive roles and rights.

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Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. IT'S ALL IN THE DELIVERY: PREGNANCY IN AMERICAN FILM AND TELEVISION COMEDY, Victoria Sturtevant, softcover, illustrated, 2024. BOOK CONDITION: as new. The text block is in fine condition with no tears, marks, or dog ears. There is no bookplate or signature of a previous owner. Not a remainder or library book. The wraps are in near fine condition. 9 x 6, 224 pages, 13 ounces XX [From the back cover] Some of the most groundbreaking moments in American film and TV comedy have centered on pregnancy, from Lucille Ball's real-life pregnancy on I Love Lucy to the abortion plot on Maude; Murphy Brown's controversial single motherhood; Arnold Schwarzenegger's pregnancy in Junior; and the third-trimester stand-up special Ali Wong: Baby Cobra. In the first book-length study of pregnancy in popular comedy, Victoria Sturtevant examines the slow evolution of pregnancy tropes during the years of the Production Code; the sexual revolution and changing norms around nonmarital pregnancy in the 1960s and '70s; and the emphasis on biological clocks, infertility, adoption, and abortion from the 1980s to now. Across this history, popular media have offered polite evasions and sentimentality instead of real candor about the physical and social complexities of pregnancy. But comedy has often led the way in puncturing these clichés, pointing an irreverent and satiric lens at the messy and sometimes absurd work of gestation. Ultimately, Sturtevant argues that comedy can reveal the distortions and lies that treat pregnancy as simple and natural "women's work," misrepresentations that rest at the heart of contemporary attacks on reproductive rights in the US. XX Well written, clearly argued, full of fascinating ideas and thoughtful analysis, IT'S ALL IN THE DELIVERY indeed delivers a powerful and timely set of conclusions. Conceptually strong and well structured, with each chapter building thoughtfully upon its predecessor, the book covers a wide range of textual, narrative, socio-cultural and political interventions into pregnancy in American film and TV comedy that will appeal to scholars and reproductive rights activists alike (MOYA LUCKETT, author of Cinema and Community: Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1977). XX VICTORIA STURTEVANT is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler and coeditor of Hysterical! Women in American Comedy.…

Condition: New. A captivating study of one of classic Hollywood's most fascinating bodies Series: Women & Film History International. Num Pages: 208 pages, 27 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APB; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340. . 2009. First Edition. paperback. . . . .…