4.1 2. The Invective Logic of Serial Outbidding 2.1 American Culture and the Invective -- 2.2 Humor and the Invective -- 2.3 Situation Comedies and the Invective -- 3. Invective Humor: Discourses of Otherness -- 3.1 Invective Fools in Mike & Molly -- 3.2 Ceasing to 'Do' Female: Auto-Invective Comedy from Phyllis Diller to 2 Broke Girls -- 4. Reflexive Invectivity: The Comedy of Super Niceness in Parks and Recreaction -- 4.1 The Invective Logic of Serial Outbidding 5.1 Embarrassment as an Invective Strategy in the Mockumentary Sitcoms The Comeback and Parks and Recreation 4.3 Why We Hate Jerry Gergich: Selective Disparagement in Super Nice Sitcoms -- Parks and Recreation's Jerry Gergich -- Brooklyn 99's Hitchcock and Scully -- 5. Dynamizing Invectivity: The Role of Invectives in the Boundary Work of the Genre -- 5.1 Embarrassment as an Invective Strategy in the Mockumentary Sitcoms The Comeback and Parks and Recreation 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Television Shows and Films Cited 5.3 Reviving Roseanne: Capitalizing Nostalgia and Invectives in Times of the Trump Presidency -- 6. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Television Shows and Films Cited
Summary:
Vituperation, disparagement, and debasement seem to have become part of the mainstream discourse in contemporary US-American media culture. Zooming in on a distinct televisual comedy genre, Katja Schulze explores the formal principles, media-specific realizations, and the cultural work of disparagement in contemporary female-led situation comedies. Subsequently, larger patterns of (gender-based) invective strategies and conventions that define the dynamism of this comedic genre come into view. Her study outlines case studies of popular sitcoms, like Parks and Recreation, Mike & Molly, and the revival of hit-sitcom Roseanne, thereby unearthing how the shows are able to stage humor as mass-mediated deprecation - a signifying practice with its own poetics and politics.
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