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Summary:

"'I'm not funny at all. What I am is brave.'--Lucille Ball. With powerhouses like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Amy Schumer dominating the entertainment landscape and memoirs from today's most vocal feminist comediennes shooting up the bestseller lists, women in comedy have never been more influential. Marking this cultural shift, The Girl in the Show explores how comedy and feminism have grown hand in hand to give women a stronger voice in the ongoing fight for equality. From I Love Lucy to SNL to today's rising cable and web-series stars, Anna Fields' entertaining, thoughtful, and candid retrospective combines amusing and honest personal narratives with the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the feminist movement. With interview subjects like Abbi Jacobson, Molly Shannon, Mo Collins, and Lizz Winstead among others-as well as actresses, stand-up comics, writers, producers, and female comedy troupes-Fields shares true stories of wit and heroism from some of our most treasured (and under-represented) artists. Creating a blueprint for the feminist comedians of tomorrow using lessons from the past, The Girl in the Show captures the urgency of our continued struggle towards equality, allowing the reader to both revel in-and rebel against-our collective ideas of 'women's comedy.'"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• A spoonful of sugar. Truth plus
• The mockingbird
• The somebody. Lucy/Lucille
• The pit and the pendulum
• Queen Lear. The invisible visible
• Talk dirty to the animals
• Enter through the wound
• Fighting for laughs
• Rewiring the ficus tree
• Lookism. Punching up
• Looking and seeing
• "Yes, and-ing" the f-word. Does millennial = feminist?
• I have met my enemy, and she is me
• We're all in this together
• Safe spaces
• Running from Roe
• Exploding the bomb.

Author/Creator:

Fields, Anna, 1981- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The girl in the show: three generations of comedy, culture, and feminism [by Fields, A.]

Subjects:

Comedy — Social aspects — United States

Feminism — United States — History

Women comedians — United States

Comedians — United States

American wit and humor — History and criticism

Comedy — Social aspects

Comedy

Feminism

Women comedians

Comedians

American wit and humor

United States

Genres:

History

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-358).

Physical Description:

xxvii, 360 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

PN1929.S595 F54 2017

ISBNs:

9781510718364 (hardcover)
1510718362 (hardcover)
9781510718371 (Ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017032163

OCLC Numbers:

994209513