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Comic revisions? : Motherhood and women’s comedy in contemporary Germany
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Stone, Katherine (2016) Comic revisions? : Motherhood and women’s comedy in contemporary Germany. Feminist Media Studies, 16 (6). pp. 1014-1028. doi:10.1080/14680777.2016.1178159 ISSN 1471-5902.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2016.1178159
Abstract
Maternal stereotypes and the realities of mothering are prominent themes in Anke Engelke’s Ladykracher and Martina Hill’s Knallerfrauen, two of the most popular sketch shows in twenty-first-century Germany. This article relates their success to social anxieties about motherhood, which Engelke and Hill illuminate through the theme of their sketches as well as through their very use of comedy to do so. I begin by using close-readings of Ladykracher and Knallerfrauen to illuminate the political potential of the sketch form to challenge maternal myths and articulate taboo feelings such as maternal ambivalence. I then consider the innovation of these maternal sketches in view of traditional theories of comedy, which paradoxically draw their imagery from the realm of the maternal even though they discount real women and mothers as comic agents. I argue that the maternal sketches of Engelke and Hill are thus doubly subversive, challenging maternal taboos as well as the discursive and generic norms they sustain.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > German Studies Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Comedy sketches -- Germany -- Social aspects, Motherhood in popular culture -- Germany, Motherhood -- Germany, Feminism and mass media -- Germany, Women in popular culture -- Germany | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Feminist Media Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1471-5902 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 4 May 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 16 | ||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1014-1028 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14680777.2016.1178159 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 October 2017 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 November 2018 |
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