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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811449703321

Autore

González Tanya <1973->

Titolo

Humor and Latina/o camp in Ugly Betty : funny looking / / Tanya González and Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7391-9750-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Collana

Critical Studies in Television

Disciplina

791.45/72

Soggetti

Hispanic Americans on television

Situation comedies (Television programs) - United States

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Humor and Latina/o Camp in Ugly Betty </span><span>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. <br /></span></span>