Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance /
"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" --
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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London ; Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield International,
[2018]
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Series: | Experiments/on the political.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : setting the agenda / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis, Iain MacKenzie
- Diagrams of comic estrangement / James Williams
- "Against the assault of laughter" : differentiating critical and resistant humour / Nick Holm
- Can we learn the truth from Lenny Bruce? A careful cognitivism about satire / Dieter Declercq
- Laughter, liturgy, Lacan and resistance to capitalist logic / Francis Stewart
- Humitas : humour as performative resistance / Kate Fox
- Conformist comedians : political humour in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Ivo Nieuwenhuis
- First World War cartoon comedy as criticism of British politics and society / Pip Gregory
- A suspended pratfall : mimesis and slapstick in contemporary art / Levi Hanes
- "Life" in struggle : the indifferent humour of Beckett's prose heroes / Selvin Yaltir
- "Holiday in Cambodia" : punk's acerbic comedy / Russ Bestley
- 'What can't be cured must be endured" : the postcolonial humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah, and Hari Kondabolu / Christine Caruana
- Political jester : from fool to king / Constantino Pereira Martins
- Three easy steps to a new you? or, some thoughts on the politics of humour in the workplace / Adrian Hickey, Giuliana Monteverde, and Robert Porter.