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] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 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 genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61703-007-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458034703321 |
Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 | ||
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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] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 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 |
ISBN | 1-61703-007-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781862103321 |
Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 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 |
ISBN | 1-61703-007-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816525003321 |
Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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