All joking aside American humor and its discontents / Rebecca Krefting.
| Author/creator | Krefting, Rebecca, 1978- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014] |
| Description | xi, 346 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | Includes filmographies and discographies. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-268) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013045490 |
| ISBN | 9781421414294 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1421414295 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781421414300 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1421414309 (pbk. : alk. paper) |