Television Comedy and Femininity: Queering Gender

by Rosie White

Can comedy on television harbour elements of gender transgression or subversion? If a man is permitted to be 'funny peculiar' - playing the underdog or misfit - does a woman seem stranger in his place?
Mapping examples from British and American comedy television over the past 60 years, from I Love Lucy to The Big Bang Theory and Smack the Pony to Waiting For God, this book asks: are particular forms of television...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784533629
• ISBN13: 9781784533625
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"