A decade of dark humor : how comedy, irony, and satire shaped post-9/11 America / / edited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca Greene ; contributors, Gavin Benke [and twelve others]

• Pubblicazione: Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (481 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.931
• Soggetto topico: Political culture - United States - History - 21st century; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 - Influence; Political satire, American; Mass media - Political aspects - United States; American wit and humor - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 2001-2009 Humor; United States Politics and government 2001-2009
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): GournelosTed <1979->; GreeneViveca; BenkeGavin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover 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" ; Chapter 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 ; Chapter 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
• Sommario/riassunto: A 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
• Titolo autorizzato: A decade of dark humor
• ISBN: 1-61703-007-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458034703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II