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Horrible White people : gender, genre, and television's precarious Whiteness
- Title
- Horrible White people : gender, genre, and television's precarious Whiteness / Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey.
- Author
- Nygaard, Taylor
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, [2020]
- ©2020.
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- Additional Authors
- Lagerwey, Jorie
- Description
- xi, 259 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- ""Horrible White People" explores genre, gender, and whiteness in television"--
- At the same time that right-wing political figures like Donald Trump were elected and reactionary socio-economic policies like Brexit were voted into law, representations of bleakly comic white fragility spread across television screens. American and British programming that featured the abjection of young, middle-class, liberal white people--such as Broad City, Casual, You're the Worst, Catastrophe, Fleabag, and Transparent--proliferated to wide popular acclaim in the 2010s. Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey track how these shows of the white left, obsessed with its own anxiety and suffering, are complicit in the rise and maintenance of the far right--particularly in the mobilization, representation, and sustenance of structural white supremacy on television. Nygaard and Lagerwey examine a cycle of dark television comedies, the focus of which are "horrible white people," by putting them in conversation with similar upmarket comedies from creators and casts of color like Insecure, Atlanta, Dear White People, and Master of None. Through their analysis, they demonstrate the ways these non-white-centric shows negotiate prestige TV's dominant aesthetics of whiteness and push back against the centering of white suffering in a time of cultural crisis. Through the lens of media analysis and feminist cultural studies, Nygaard and Lagerwey's book opens up new ways of looking at contemporary television consumption--and the political, cultural, and social repercussions of these "horrible white people" shows, both on- and off-screen--from publisher's website
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: The Fraying Fantasies of White Supremacy -- Peak TV and the Spreadability of Transatlantic Horrible White People -- Alternative Families and White Fragility: The Politics of the Dystopian Sitcom -- Emergent Feminisms and Racial Discourses of Televisual Girlfriendship -- Diverse Quality Comedies in an Era of White Precarity -- Conclusion: NFL Protests and White Supremacy in the Mass Market -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Horrible White People Shows and Diverse Quality Comedies Synopses.
- Call Number
- MWGS 21-1208
- ISBN
- 9781479885459
- 1479885452
- 9781479805358
- 1479805351
- 9781479805341 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781479805334 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020016516
- OCLC
- 1142732370
- Author
- Nygaard, Taylor, author.
- Title
- Horrible White people : gender, genre, and television's precarious Whiteness / Taylor Nygaard and Jorie Lagerwey.
- Publisher
- New York : New York University Press, [2020]©2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-251) and index.
- Added Author
- Lagerwey, Jorie, author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Nygaard, Taylor. Horrible white people. New York : New York University Press, 2020 9781479805341 (DLC) 2020016517
- Research Call Number
- MWGS 21-1208