BUI301F2022/Comedy and Identity Discussion

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Class screenings related to identity

  • Race
    • The Bernie Mac Show
    • Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
    • Girlfriends
  • Ethnicity/nationality
    • Always Be My Maybe
    • Reservation Dogs
    • Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
  • Religion
    • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Class
    • The Lady Eve
    • 2 Broke Girls


Texts & resources

  • Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, "Laughing Out Loud: Negras Negotiating Situation Comedy," in Shaded Lives: African-American Women and Television (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002), 24-68.
  • Jeremy G. Butler, "Redesigning Discourse: Feminism, the Sitcom and Designing Women," Journal of Film and Video, 45, no. 1; pp. 13-26. Online version.