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**Examines the bleak television comedies that illustrate the obsession of the white left with its own anxiety and suffering** 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 N

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Author

Taylor Nygaard, Jorie Lagerwey

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479885459

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sports, Literary Fiction