Victoria Sturtevant

It's All in the Delivery

Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Pregnancy and the politics surrounding it are serious matters, but humor has been a revealing and transformative means of engaging the subject. This book argues that representational breakthroughs were enabled by comedyâ s capacity to violate restrictive norms, introducing candor, courage, and critique into popular notions of pregnancy on-screen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781477330449
• ISBN-10: 1477330445
• Artikelnr.: 70102534

Autorenporträt

Victoria Sturtevant is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler and co-editor of Hysterical! Women in American Comedy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. What to Expect When You’re Expecting (to Read This Book)
Chapter 1. Confinements: Enter the Stork
Chapter 2. Hysterical Fatherhood: Male Pregnancy On-Screen
Chapter 3. Bad Pregnancies: Social Problems and Bad Seeds
Chapter 4. Baby Bust: Infertility and Its Discontents
Chapter 5. Shmashmortion: Terminating Abortion Stigma through Comedy
Conclusion. It’s All in the Delivery
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index