02611nam 2200421 450 991079546220332120180710152153.01-78660-408-6(CKB)4340000000247148(MiAaPQ)EBC5306705(EXLCZ)99434000000024714820180315h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierComedy and critical thought laughter as resistance /Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzieLondon, England ;New York :Rowman & Littlefield International,2018.©20181 online resource (246 pages)1-78660-407-8 1-78660-406-X 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."First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" --Provided by publisher.LaughterLaughter.152.43Rutter Giappone Krista Bonello1526805Francis FredMackenzie IainMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910795462203321Comedy and critical thought3769141UNINA