03603nam 22006255 450 991025508410332120200629234541.03-319-50950-010.1007/978-3-319-50950-1(DE-He213)978-3-319-50950-1(MiAaPQ)EBC5098680(CKB)4100000000882608(EXLCZ)99410000000088260820171010d2017 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHumour as Politics The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy /by Nicholas Holm1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2017.1 online resource (XII, 223 p. 12 illus. in color.)Palgrave Studies in Comedy1. 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. .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. .Palgrave Studies in ComedyMotion picturesCultural policyFilm genresAestheticsComedyFilm Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413090Cultural Policy and Politicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411120Genrehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413110Aestheticshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/E11000Audio-Visual Culturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/413190Comedy Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411230Motion pictures.Cultural policy.Film genres.Aesthetics.Comedy.Film Theory.Cultural Policy and Politics.Genre.Aesthetics.Audio-Visual Culture.Comedy Studies.791.4301Holm Nicholasauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut975290BOOK9910255084103321Humour as Politics2220945UNINA