...Maggie Hennefeld Is Laughter an affect? And what would it mean for feminist theory to conceive of it as such? This article pursues laughter as an affect that bridges the gap between feminist comedy studies and feminist affect theory. Laughter has widely missed the mark of feminist theory’s sourcing...

...=reprints . 2018 comedy gender race radio sexuality Radio studies is an inherently feminist endeavor. Radio was long considered too commercial, too personal, too crowded with pop music, too frivolous, too … feminine to be taken very seriously either in academia or in the culture at large...

... of romantic comedies and melodramas, the makeover's temporalized depiction of self-improvement participates in the broader “double movement” of postfeminist ideology and its promise of a secure future of marriage and career. 21 Brenda Weber points to a postfeminist logic underlying the cultural prominence...

... is an African American lesbian writer who cohosts the comedy podcast The Read with Kid Fury, a Black gay man who took the Internet by storm with his unapologetic weekly rants on YouTube. I discuss both Ajayi and West's articulations of sass and shade in their cultural productions, paying attention...

...Salma Siddique Identifying the earliest examples that document partition in Bombay cinema, this article delves into the relationship between a historic trauma and physical comedy through the star performance of Meena Shorey in a trilogy of romantic comedies, Ek Thi Larki ( Once There Was a Girl...