All Joking Aside American Humor and Its Discontents

Name: All Joking Aside American Humor and Its Discontents
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ISBN: 9781421414300

ISBN-10: 1421414309

ISBN-13: 9781421414300

Edition: 2014

Authors: Rebecca Krefting

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In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs—they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain those fictions. Jokes loaded with vitriol and delivered with verve, charged humor compels audiences to action, artfully summoning political critique. Since the institutionalization of stand-up comedy as a distinct cultural form, stand-up comics have leveraged charged humor to reveal social, political, and economic stratifications. All Joking Aside…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English