The Punk Turn in Comedy Masks of Anarchy /

• Main Author: Bonello Rutter Giappone, Krista (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
• Subjects: Popular Culture.; Motion pictures.; Music.; Comedy.; Popular Culture .; Audio-Visual Culture.; Comedy Studies.

This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk's tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK, and the punk strategies introduced when altcom sought self-definition against dominant established...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Peter Cook: Missing Links
• 3. The 'Alternative'
• 4. Attitudes Towards the Past
• 5. Styling the Amateur
• 6. The Role of the Audience
• 7. Modes of Dis-/Engagement
• 8. Power-Play
• 9. 'Style Without Affectation': Honesty and Performance
• 10. Boundaries of the [Un]Said
• 11. Conclusion.