“With Age Comes Wisdom”: Joan Rivers, Betty White, and the Aging Comedienne

Kristen Anderson Wagner

doi:10.1525/fmh.2017.3.2.141

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.2.141

Publication Date

Published online March 1, 2017.

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University of California Press Journals

Online ISSN

2373-7492

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Kristen Anderson Wagner
Kristen Anderson Wagner received her PhD in critical studies from USC's School of Cinematic Arts and teaches film studies at Solano College. She has published essays in Hysterical! Women in American Comedy (University of Texas Press, 2017), A Companion to Film Comedy (Blackwell, 2012), and the journal Velvet Light Trap. Her book Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film is forthcoming from Wayne State University Press.

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