- Titel
- Veep, Invective Spectacle, and the Figure of the Comedic Antiheroine
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-949607
- Quellenangabe
- Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Jahrgang: 67
Heft: 2
Seiten: 147-162
ISSN: 0044-2305
E-ISSN: 2196-4726 - Erstveröffentlichung
- 2019
- Abstract (EN)
- This article approaches HBO’s Veep through the lens of what Dan Hassler- Forest (2014) has described as the meta-genre of ‘Quality TV.’ Against the backdrop of ‘Quality TV’s’ conspicuous investment in masculinity, I ask how Veep actualizes the meta-genre’s conventions of moral ambiguity and sensationalist storytelling around a female protagonist and in the genre of comedy. I focus on one key strategy I see the show employ in this actualization, a strategy I conceptualize as invective spectacle. In Veep, invective spectacle translates ‘Quality TV’s’ characteristic transgressiveness into the conventions of comedy and, in the process, constructs the figure of a morally ambiguous antiheroine. The dynamics of invective spectacle – as a poetics that appears to be booming in contemporary television culture – structure the show’s elaboration of a complex female protagonist as a morally flawed woman of power.
- Andere Ausgabe
- Link zur Erstveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1515/zaa-2019-0014 - Freie Schlagwörter (DE)
- englische Literatur
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 820
- Verlag
- de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin
- Version / Begutachtungsstatus
- publizierte Version / Verlagsversion
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-949607
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 20.12.2024
- Dokumenttyp
- Artikel
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
CC BY 4.0