A Decade of Dark Humor
How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America
A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and irony on both media discourse and tangible political reality. Furthermore, it demonstrates that laughter is simultaneously an avenue through which social issues are deferred or obfuscated, a way in which neoliberal or neoconservative rhetoric is challenged, and a means of forming alternative political ideologies.The volume's contributors cover a b…
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Weitere Autoren: Greene, Viveca (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62846-708-6
- EAN: 9781628467086
- Produktnummer: 35857678
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: EPUB Single
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Edited by Ted Gournelos and Viveca S. Greene
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