Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance

Comedy and critical thought laughter as resistance

"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" --

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Weitere Verfasser: Rutter Giappone, Krista Bonello (HerausgeberIn), Francis, Fred (HerausgeberIn), Mackenzie, Ian E. (HerausgeberIn), MacKenzie, Iain M. (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London, New York Rowman & Littlefield International 2018
Schriftenreihe:Experiments/On the political
Schlagworte:
Comedy > History and criticism > Comic, The > Critical theory > Political satire > Criticism (Philosophy) > Laughter > Wit and humor > Aufsatzsammlung > Konferenzschrift > Satire > Humor > Lachen > Kritische Theorie
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Zusammenfassung:"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" --
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
Beschreibung:vii, 237 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:1786604078
1-78660-407-8
178660406X
1-78660-406-X
9781786604071
978-1-78660-407-1
9781786604064
978-1-78660-406-4