Hysterical! :  women in American comedy / 
edited by Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant ; foreword by Kathleen Rowe Karlyn. 
 - First edition. 
 - Austin :  University of Texas Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 454 pages) :  illustrations. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction /  Mabel Normand : new woman in the flapper age /  Fay Tincher : female rowdiness and social change /  Mae West : the constant sinner /  Fanny Brice's new nose : beauty, ethnicity, and liminality /  Lucille Ball and the Lucy character : familiarity, female friendship, and the anxiety of competence /  Carol Burnett : home, horror, and hilarity on the Carol Burnett show /  Lily Tomlin : queer sensibilities, funny feminism, and multimedia stardom /  Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes : "I'ma be me" /  Roseanne Barr : remembering Roseanne /  Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood : queering comic genre genealogies /  Margaret Cho's army : "we are the baddest motherfuckers on the block" /  Ellen Degeneres's incorporate body : the politics of authenticity /  Sarah Silverman : cuteness as subversion /  Tina Fey : "quality" comedy and the body of the female comedy author /  Lena Dunham : cringe comedy and body politics /  Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant --  Kristine Brunovska Karnick --  Joanna E. Rapf --  Kristen Hatch --  Kristen Anderson Wagner --  Lori Landay --  Linda Mizejewski --  Suzanne Leonard --  Bambi Haggins --  Rosie White --  Rebecca Wanzo --  Rebecca Krefting --  Brenda R. Weber and Joselyn K. Leimbach --  Anthony P. Mcintyre --  Julia Havas --  Maria sulimma. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781477314531 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women comedians--United States--20th century.<br/>Women comedians--United States--21st century.<br/>American wit and humor--History and criticism.<br/>Feminism.<br/>Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.<br/>Body image in women.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1590  / .H978 2017