Humour as Politics : The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy / / by Nicholas Holm
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| Autore: |
Holm Nicholas
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| Titolo: |
Humour as Politics : The Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Comedy / / by Nicholas Holm
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| Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XII, 223 p. 12 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.4301 |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures |
| Cultural policy | |
| Film genres | |
| Aesthetics | |
| Comedy | |
| Film Theory | |
| Cultural Policy and Politics | |
| Genre | |
| Audio-Visual Culture | |
| Comedy Studies | |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction: Living in Comic Times -- 2. Dissent in Jest: Humour in the Liberal Moment -- 3. Telling Jokes to Power: The (A)Political Work of Humour -- 4. Humour without Anaesthetic: The Discomfort of Reality Comedy -- 5. Humour without Pity: The Scandal of Provocative Humour -- 6. Humour without Reason: The Nonsense of Absurd Humour -- 7. All That is Solid Collapses into Giggles: Examining the Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Humour -- 8. Conclusion: The Last Laugh. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle’s Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment. . |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Humour as Politics |
| ISBN: | 3-319-50950-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910255084103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Palgrave Studies in Comedy