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Krefting Rebecca <1978-> |
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All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / / Rebecca Krefting |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Stand-up comedy - United States |
Comedy - History and criticism |
Participatory theater |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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