This book explores female authorship in UK television comedy, with a focus on British and Northern Irish writers/performers. More specifically, it examines comedy texts produced between 2010 and 2020, a period marked by a proliferation of female-centric and female-created comedy. In the following order, comedians Julia Davis, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Caitlin/Caroline Moran, Michaela Coel, and Sharon Horgan will be analysed as key case studies. Drawing from these case studies, the book has two objectives. First, it seeks to update Kathleen Rowe's concept of the 'unruly' woman, shifting the emphasis from visibility and performance to the labour and contexts behind on-screen portrayals. Building on Rowe's existing scholarship, the book introduces the term 'fastidious' to describe how comedians display delicacy, precision, and control over their carefully crafted TV series. Secondly, the book aims to extend this concept to British and Northern Irish TV writers/performers who have been either overlooked or examined within broader transnational projects. In doing so, it 'reclaims' the authorship of women from the UK.

Reclaiming Female Authorship in Contemporary UK Television Comedy (Edinburgh Studies in Television)

Literature & Fiction

Minor, Laura

Dramas & Plays

Edinburgh University Press

Reclaiming Female Authorship In Contemporary Uk Television Comedy

Edinburgh University Press Ltd

Review\n"This is the magnificent story of ruining things, weeping bottles, flying tuna-fish sandwiches," writes Minor in her panoramic debut that explores setting (mostly Florida), relationships with men and women, illness, friendship, depression, and suicidal ideation. Its dedication "to women everywhere who refuse to give up their dreams" signals the collection’s interest in resilience. Readers will enjoy Minor’s fierce, unabashed voice.” 
—Publishers Weekly\n“One of the greatest pleasures I take in poetry is that feeling of camaraderie: the shared space of mutual humanity. That sense of belonging in the world, even with all its volatilities and uncertainties. And Laura Minor’s poems deliver on that pleasure. Achingly real and ever aspiring, this book is full of wonder, full of longing and its rewards. ‘I guess I just wanted to see snow falliing from the sky,’ she writes and ‘I will open a small sea for you.’ I find these poems so gratifying, so necessary. Tender and awake to what’s possible.” 
—D.A. Powell author of Useless Landscape, or a Guide for Boys\n"There had been Empire. There had been metamorphosis. Now, after that love and that music and that dream of Rome, the poet must come to terms with being human, must accept being one thing instead of many, exiled by Time back to the finality of the body. This is Flowers as Mind Control. Like her co-pilot, the Ovid of the Black Sea Letters, Laura Minor comes off like a fallen god, stranded on barbarian ramparts, piecing together the new real." 
—Josh Bell, author of Alamo Theory\n“Flowers as Mind Control is a lyrically compelling collection of poetry written by Laura Minor, the winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by John Hodgen. Minor’s debut collection is a truly original compilation of loneliness and wanderlust with meditations ranging from music and alcohol to homesickness and loss.” 
—Jessica Blandford, Southern Review of Books, March 2022\nThis book, which was selected by poet John Hodgen for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, ranges across rural Florida and Georgia as well as Los Angeles and New York City, include considerations of homesickness, memory, music, alcohol, love, and loss. With a voice at once inquisitive and prescient, Minor meditates on consumption, vice, homesickness, memory, family, and the landscape. Minor’s writing is unerringly lyric and blooming with elegant charm and keen description. This book is an alchemy of fortitude in the face of despair and all the transformative possibility that comes with the hope for a better future.

Flowers as Mind Control: poems

Poetry

BkMk Press

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