Pretty/Funny Mizejewski, Linda
2014, 2014-03-07
eBook
Focusing on star writer/performer comedians—Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres—Pretty/Funny demonstrates that women’s comedy has become a prime ...site of feminism in the twenty-first century.
A rigorous analytic analysis,Laughing Madinterrogates notions of identity, within both the African American community and mainstream popular culture. Written in engaging and accessible prose, it is ...also a book that will travel from the seminar room, to the barbershop, to the kitchen table, allowing readers to experience the sketches, stand-up, and film comedies with all the laughter they deserve.
Charles Maland focuses on the cultural sources of the on-and-off, love-hate affair between Chaplin and the American public that was perhaps the stormiest in American stardom.
