Humour as Politics The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy
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Palgrave Studies in Comedy
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
23.10.2017
Abbildungen
XII, 12 illus. in color., farbige Illustrationen
Verlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
223
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/1.8 cm
Gewicht
436 g
Auflage
1st ed. 2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-319-50949-5
This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle’s Show , Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.
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