Chapter 15. Lena Dunham: Cringe Comedy and Body Politics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. Chapter 1. Mabel Normand: New Woman in the Flapper Age 35
7. Chapter 2. Fay Tincher: Female Rowdiness and Social Change 62
8. Chapter 3. Mae West: The Constant Sinner 86
9. Chapter 4. Fanny Brice’s New Nose: Beauty, Ethnicity, and Liminality 109
10. Chapter 5. Lucille Ball and the Lucy Character: Familiarity, Female Friendship, and the Anxiety of Competence 137
11. Chapter 6. Carol Burnett: Home, Horror, and Hilarity on The Carol Burnett Show 164
12. Chapter 7. Lily Tomlin: Queer Sensibilities, Funny Feminism, and Multimedia Stardom 186
13. Chapter 8. Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes: “I’ma Be Me” 207
14. Chapter 9. Roseanne Barr: Remembering Roseanne 233
15. Chapter 10. Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood: Queering Comic Genre Genealogies 251
16. Chapter 11. Margaret Cho’s Army: “We Are the Baddest Motherfuckers on the Block” 273
17. Chapter 12. Ellen DeGeneres’s Incorporate Body: The Politics of Authenticity 303
18. Chapter 13. Sarah Silverman: Cuteness as Subversion 325
19. Chapter 14. Tina Fey: “Quality” Comedy and the Body of the Female Comedy Author 347
20. Chapter 15. Lena Dunham: Cringe Comedy and Body Politics 379
21. Works Cited 403
22. Contributors 423
23. Index 427