All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]Description: xi, 346 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9781421414294
- 1421414295
- 9781421414300
- 1421414309
- 792.7/60973 23
- PN1969.C65 .K74 2014
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Includes filmographies and discographies.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index.
Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh.
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