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UNINA9910255084103321 |
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Autore |
Holm Nicholas |
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Titolo |
Humour as Politics : The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy / / by Nicholas Holm |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
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[1st ed. 2017.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XII, 223 p. 12 illus. in color.) |
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Collana |
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Palgrave Studies in Comedy |
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Motion pictures |
Cultural policy |
Film genres |
Aesthetics |
Comedy |
Film Theory |
Cultural Policy and Politics |
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Audio-Visual Culture |
Comedy Studies |
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Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Introduction: Living in Comic Times -- 2. Dissent in Jest: Humour in the Liberal Moment -- 3. Telling Jokes to Power: The (A)Political Work of Humour -- 4. Humour without Anaesthetic: The Discomfort of Reality Comedy -- 5. Humour without Pity: The Scandal of Provocative Humour -- 6. Humour without Reason: The Nonsense of Absurd Humour -- 7. All That is Solid Collapses into Giggles: Examining the Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Humour -- 8. Conclusion: The Last Laugh. . |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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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