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All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (360 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421414317
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: All Joking AsideDDC classification:
  • 792.7/60973
LOC classification:
  • PN1969.C65 .K744 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Laughscape of American Humor -- 1 Making Connections: Building Cultural Citizenship through Charged Humor -- 2 Twentieth-Century Stand-Up: A History of Charged Humor -- 3 Laughing into the New Millennium -- 4 When Women Perform Charged Humor: The (Gendered) Politics of Consumption -- 5 Robin Tyler: Still "Working the Crowd" -- 6 Micia Mosely: Humor out of the Mouths of Babes -- 7 Hari Kondabolu: Performing in the Age of Modern-Day Minstrelsy -- Conclusion. How to Avoid the Last Laugh -- Notes -- Charged Comic Compendium -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Readers will be delighted by the broad array of comic talent spotlighted in this book, and for those interested in comedy with substance, it will offer an alternative punchline.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Laughscape of American Humor -- 1 Making Connections: Building Cultural Citizenship through Charged Humor -- 2 Twentieth-Century Stand-Up: A History of Charged Humor -- 3 Laughing into the New Millennium -- 4 When Women Perform Charged Humor: The (Gendered) Politics of Consumption -- 5 Robin Tyler: Still "Working the Crowd" -- 6 Micia Mosely: Humor out of the Mouths of Babes -- 7 Hari Kondabolu: Performing in the Age of Modern-Day Minstrelsy -- Conclusion. How to Avoid the Last Laugh -- Notes -- Charged Comic Compendium -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Readers will be delighted by the broad array of comic talent spotlighted in this book, and for those interested in comedy with substance, it will offer an alternative punchline.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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