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/ ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]