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Subject:	Re: Transgender/sexuality in Comedies
From:	Matt McAllister <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:16:54 -0500
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Richard Cowley writes
 
>I don't know if you want to include cartoon shorts as comedies, but look to
>Bugs Bunny as Carmen Miranda, and Elmer Fudd posing as a buxom beauty (The
>rabbits are coming hooray! hooray!), as well as the rest of the Looney Tunes
>gang...
>
 
Also, there's a very witty essay about Warner Brother's characters and drag
by Sam Abel, "The Rabbit in Drag: Camp and Gender Construction in the
American Animated Cartoon," _Journal of Popular Culture_, 29(3), Winter
1995, pp. 183-202.
 
 
Matt McAllister
Department of Communication Studies, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA  24061-0311  ph: 540-231-9830  fax: 540-231-9817
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
 
Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech Home Page:
http://www.comm.vt.edu/
 
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