Comedy and the Politics of Representation Mocking the Weak /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Davies, Helen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ilott, Sarah (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Comedy
• Θέματα: Popular Culture.; People with disabilities.; Identity politics.; Comedy.; Popular Culture .; Disability Studies.; Politics and Gender.; Comedy Studies.

This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which "humorous" constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and oppression in popular culture. Should there...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Mocking the Weak? Contexts, Theories, Politcs, Helen Davies and Sarah Ilott
• 2. Taking Liberties? Free Speech, Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Satire, Anshuman A. Mondal
• 3. Openness, Otherness, and Expertise: Uncertainty and Trust in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Rob Hawkes
• 4. British Multiculturalism, Romantic Comedy, and the Lie of Social Unification, Sarah Ilott
• 5. Parodying Racial Passing in Chappelle's Show and Key & Peele, Janine Bradbury
• 6. Blackness and Banal Whiteness: Abjection and Identity in the Italian Christmas Comedy, Alan O'Leary
• 7. Sexual and National Difference in the high-speed, popular surrealism of Tommy Handley and Ronald Frankau's double acts, 1929-1936, Neil Washbourne
• 8. From Terry and June to Terry and Julian: June Whitfield and the British Suburban Sitcom, Rosie White
• 9. Saintly Cretins and Ugly Buglys: Laughing at Victorian Disability in Hunderby, Helen Davies
• 10. Standing Up to False Binaries in Humour and Autism: A Dialogue, Kate Fox
• 11. Comedy and the Representation of the British Working Class from On the Buses to This is England '90, Tracy Casling
• 12. Theorising Post-Socialist Sitcom: Imported Form, Vernacular Humour and Taste Boundaries on the Global Periphery, Dejan Jontes and Andreja Trdina
• 13. Smile, Hitler? Nazism and Comedy in Popular Culture, Jason Lee
• 14. POTUS Stand-up: The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Sheryl Tuttle Ross.