TY - BOOK AU - Anderson Wagner,Kristen AU - Brunovska Karnick,Kristine AU - Haggins,Bambi AU - Hatch,Kristen AU - Havas,Julia AU - Karlyn,Kathleen Rowe AU - Krefting,Rebecca AU - Landay,Lori AU - Leimbach,Joselyn K. AU - Leonard,Suzanne AU - Mcintyre,Anthony P. AU - Mizejewski,Linda AU - Rapf,Joanna E AU - Rowe Karlyn,Kathleen AU - Sturtevant,Victoria AU - Sulimma,Maria AU - Wanzo,Rebecca AU - Weber,Brenda R. AU - White,Rosie TI - Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy SN - 9781477314531 AV - PN1590.W64 H97 2017 U1 - 792.702/8092 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Austin : PB - University of Texas Press, KW - American wit and humor KW - History and criticism KW - American wit and humor-History and criticism KW - Body image in women KW - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) KW - United States KW - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)-United States KW - Feminism KW - Women comedians KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Women comedians-United States-20th century KW - Women comedians-United States-21st century KW - PERFORMING ARTS / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter 1. Mabel Normand: New Woman in the Flapper Age --; Chapter 2. Fay Tincher: Female Rowdiness and Social Change --; Chapter 3. Mae West: The Constant Sinner --; Chapter 4. Fanny Brice’s New Nose: Beauty, Ethnicity, and Liminality --; Chapter 5. Lucille Ball and the Lucy Character: Familiarity, Female Friendship, and the Anxiety of Competence --; Chapter 6. Carol Burnett: Home, Horror, and Hilarity on The Carol Burnett Show --; Chapter 7. Lily Tomlin: Queer Sensibilities, Funny Feminism, and Multimedia Stardom --; Chapter 8. Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes: “I’ma Be Me” --; Chapter 9. Roseanne Barr: Remembering Roseanne --; Chapter 10. Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood: Queering Comic Genre Genealogies --; Chapter 11. Margaret Cho’s Army: “We Are the Baddest Motherfuckers on the Block” --; Chapter 12. Ellen DeGeneres’s Incorporate Body: The Politics of Authenticity --; Chapter 13. Sarah Silverman: Cuteness as Subversion --; Chapter 14. Tina Fey: “Quality” Comedy and the Body of the Female Comedy Author --; Chapter 15. Lena Dunham: Cringe Comedy and Body Politics --; Works Cited --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7560/314517 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477314531 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477314531/original ER -