LEADER 04401nam 2200709 450 001 9910458034703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61703-007-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000060276 035 $a(EBL)746919 035 $a(OCoLC)758384936 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000568928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12290412 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000568928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10540295 035 $a(PQKB)11029810 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204130 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC746919 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL746919 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11204188 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000060276 100 $a20151001h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 02$aA decade of dark humor $ehow comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America /$fedited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene ; contributors, Gavin Benke [and twelve others] 210 1$aJackson, [Mississippi] :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (481 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61703-006-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Popular Culture and Post-9/11 Politics; Part One First Responders; Chapter One Everything Changes Forever (Temporarily): Late-Night Television Comedy after 9/11; Chaper Two "Where Was King Kong When We needed Him?": Public Discourse, Digital Disaster Jokes, and the Functions of Laughter after 9/11; Chapter Three "The Arab Is the New Nigger": African American Comics Confront the Irony & Tragedy of 9/11; Chapter Four Humor, Terror, and Dissent: The Onion after 9/11; Part Two Enter the "War on Terror" 327 $aChapter Five Laughs, Tears, and Breakfast Cereals: Rethinking Trauma and Post-9/11 Politics in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No TowersChapter Six Republican Decline and Culture Wars in 9/11 Humor; Chapter Seven Critique, Counternarratives, and Ironic Intervention in South Park and Stephen Colbert; Chapter Eight Humoring 9/11 Skepticism; Part Three Rethinking Post-9/11 Politics; Chapter Nine Laughing Doves: U.S. Antiwar Satire from Niagara to Fallujah; Chapter Ten "Hummer Rhymes with Dumber": Neoliberalism, Irony, and the Cartoons of Jeff Danziger 327 $aChapter Eleven Laughing All the Way to the Bank: Enron, Humor, and Political EconomyChapter Twelve What's So Funny about a Dead Terrorist?: Toward an Ethics of Humor for the Digital Age; Coda: Humor, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies; Contributors; Index 330 $aA Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that laughter is simultaneously an avenue through which social issues are deferred or obfuscated, a way in which neoliberal or neoconservative rhetoric is challenged, and a means of forming alternative politi 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence 606 $aPolitical satire, American 606 $aMass media$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAmerican wit and humor$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009$vHumor 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-2009 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$xInfluence. 615 0$aPolitical satire, American. 615 0$aMass media$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aAmerican wit and humor$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a973.931 702 $aGournelos$b Ted$f1979- 702 $aGreene$b Viveca 702 $aBenke$b Gavin 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458034703321 996 $aA decade of dark humor$92441838 997 $aUNINA