Category: Blog Post 6 due Friday Nov 2 by 5 PM
Week 8 (5 November): Sex is Comedy: Performing and Parodying Gender
Kathleen Rowe, “Feminist Film Theory and the Question of Laughter,” The Unruly Woman:
Gender and the Genres of Laughter (Austin: Texas, 1995), 1-22.
Judith Butler, “From Interiority to Gender Performatives,” Gender Trouble (New York: Routledge, 1999), 171-180, 215-216.
Anca Parvulescu, “‘So We Will Go Bad,’ Cheekines, Laughter, Film”, Camera Obscura 62, 21: 2 (2006), 144-167.
The Comedic Limitations of The Unruly Woman
Taming the Unruly Woman (Brooke Daley)
Ursula and the Comedic Body
‘Monster House’: Constance as Kathleen Rowe’s Female Grotesque and Spectacle (Stewart Clark)
“Gender Roles in Disney’s Brave” by Jessy Stanley
Comedies and Romance-Inflected Narratives (Lilja Valtonen)
Killing Eve & The Unruly Woman
The fantasy of gender identity in “Bad Education” (Alicia Ferrández Cros)
