Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance / / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie
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Rutter Giappone Krista Bonello
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Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance / / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie
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| Pubblicazione: | London, England ; ; New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2018 |
| ©2018 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (246 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 152.43 |
| Soggetto topico: | Laughter |
| Persona (resp. second.): | FrancisFred |
| MackenzieIain | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" -- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Comedy and critical thought |
| ISBN: | 1-78660-408-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814488503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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