All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents /

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"In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs--they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Krefting, Rebecca, 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Stand-up comedy.
Participatory theater.
Comedy.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Theâtre > Participation du public.
Comedie > Histoire et critique.
Monologue comique > États-Unis.
Comedy > History and criticism.
Stand-up comedy > United States.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: American humor and its discontents
  • Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor
  • Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor
  • Laughing into the new millennium
  • When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption
  • Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd'
  • Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes
  • Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy
  • Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.

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