Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics / / by Linda Mizejewski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464690703321
• Autore: Mizejewski Linda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-292-75692-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.702/8092
• Soggetti: Women comedians - United States; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) - United States; Racism - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.