LEADER 03764nam 2200637 450 001 9910789284903321 005 20230803201924.0 010 $a0-292-75692-5 024 7 $a10.7560/756915 035 $a(CKB)3710000000092456 035 $a(EBL)3443726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001134558 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11626472 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001134558 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11183460 035 $a(PQKB)11680177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443726 035 $a(OCoLC)878138044 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse34485 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443726 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10846040 035 $a(DE-B1597)586582 035 $a(OCoLC)1280942651 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292756922 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000092456 100 $a20140318h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPretty/funny $ewomen comedians and body politics /$fby Linda Mizejewski 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aAustin, Texas :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (279 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-292-75691-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aWomen 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 the topic and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don?t all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women?s comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century. 606 $aWomen comedians$zUnited States 606 $aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)$zUnited States 606 $aRacism$zUnited States 615 0$aWomen comedians 615 0$aFeminine beauty (Aesthetics) 615 0$aRacism 676 $a792.702/8092 700 $aMizejewski$b Linda$0955817 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789284903321 996 $aPretty$93795733 997 $aUNINA