Comedy and critical thought laughter as resistance / [edited by] Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie.

Other author Rutter Giappone, Krista Bonello.
Other author Francis, Fred (Lecturer)
Other author Mackenzie, Iain, 1969-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]
Description1 online resource.
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Subjects

SeriesExperiments/On the Political
Contents Introduction : setting the agenda / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis, Iain MacKenzie -- Diagrams of comic estrangement / James Williams -- "Against the assault of laughter" : differentiating critical and resistant humour / Nick Holm -- Can we learn the truth from Lenny Bruce? A careful cognitivism about satire / Dieter Declercq -- Laughter, liturgy, Lacan and resistance to capitalist logic / Francis Stewart -- Humitas : humour as performative resistance / Kate Fox -- Conformist comedians : political humour in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Ivo Nieuwenhuis -- First World War cartoon comedy as criticism of British politics and society / Pip Gregory -- A suspended pratfall : mimesis and slapstick in contemporary art / Levi Hanes -- "Life" in struggle : the indifferent humour of Beckett's prose heroes / Selvin Yaltir -- "Holiday in Cambodia" : punk's acerbic comedy / Russ Bestley -- 'What can't be cured must be endured" : the postcolonial humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah, and Hari Kondabolu / Christine Caruana -- Political jester : from fool to king / Constantino Pereira Martins -- Three easy steps to a new you? or, some thoughts on the politics of humour in the workplace / Adrian Hickey, Giuliana Monteverde, and Robert Porter.
Abstract "First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Comedy and critical thought London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018] 9781786604064
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LCCN 2018032789
ISBN9781786604088 (electronic)
ISBN1786604086 (electronic)