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Look Who's Laughing
Gail Finney
其他書名
Gender and Comedy
出版
Routledge
, 2014-07-10
主題
Performing Arts / General
Performing Arts / Theater / General
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Women's Studies
Art / Performance
ISBN
1134304730
9781134304738
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gV0ABAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
First Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing women's humor in isolation, Gail Finney and twenty scholars map the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each hold exclusively. Their essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humor and romantic power. They focus on comic drama and fiction, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and film describing the roles gender has played in the creation, reception and interpretation of comedy from the sixteenth century to present. They consider works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf, whilst discussing characters such as V.I. Warshawski, Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Bennet. The book's emphasis on comedy's diverse sources uncovers critical prejudices and defines new contexts enabling men and women to understand more about each other's attitudes towards humor, its means and ends.