Humour as politics : the political aesthetics of contemporary comedy / Nicholas Holm.
| Author/creator | Holm, Nicholas author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Palgrave studies in comedy Palgrave studies in comedy. ^A1326049 |
| Contents | Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Living in Comic Times -- The World that Jokes Built -- Theorising Humour: Incongruity and Superiority Models -- Towards a Political Aesthetics of Humour -- Emergent Modes of Humour: Political Contexts and Comic Texts -- A Quick Note on Terminology -- References -- Chapter 2 Dissent in Jest: Humour in the Liberal Moment -- Liberalism and the Idea of Reasonable Dissent -- Freedom, Capitalism and the Desire for Dissent -- Humour as Reasonable Dissent |
| Contents | Â#x80;#x9C;Against the Assault of Laughter Nothing Can Standâ#x80;#x9D;The Laughter That Shatters: Carnival Tendencies in Contemporary Humour Theory -- References -- Chapter 3 Telling Jokes to Power: The (A)Political Work of Humour -- The Daily Show and the Politics of Ridicule -- The Onion and the Politics of Parody -- The Thick of It, Veep and the Politics of Failure -- The Political Limitations of Politicised Humour -- References -- Chapter 4 Humour Without Anaesthetic:The Discomfort of Reality Comedy -- The Comedy of Pain and Suffering |
| Contents | Jackass and the Comedy of Physical SufferingThe Office and the Comedy of Social Failure -- Borat and the Comedy of Public Humiliation -- Uncomfortable Humour and theAesthetic Implication of the Audience -- References -- Chapter 5 Humour Without Pity: The Scandal of Provocative Humour -- Comic Violation and the Aesthetics of Offence -- â#x80;#x9C;The N-Word Familyâ#x80;#x9D;: Chappelleâ#x80;#x99;s Show and Linguistic Taboos -- â#x80;#x9C;Holocaust Memorial Smackdownâ#x80;#x9D;: The Sarah Silverman Program and Moral Taboo -- The Pratfall of Death: Four Lions and Political Taboos |
| Contents | Provocative Humour and Self-Reflexive OffenceReferences -- Chapter 6 Humour Without Reason: The Nonsense of Absurd Humour -- The Simpsons and Everyday Absurdity -- South Park and Constitutive Absurdity -- Family Guy and Formal Absurdity -- Absurd Humour and the Aesthetic Limits of Interpretation and Understanding -- References -- Chapter 7 All that is Solid Collapses into Giggles: Examining the Political Aesthetics of Contemporary Humour -- â#x80;#x9C;Laughter Is a Sicknessâ#x80;#x9D;: Political Aesthetics and Popular Humour |
| Contents | Laughing with Adorno and RanciÃr̈e: Towards a Political Aesthetic Model of HumourThe Comic Logic of Late Capitalism -- Laugh like no Oneâ#x80;#x99;s Watching: Liberal Drives in the Society of Humour -- References -- Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Last Laugh -- References |
| Abstract | "This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle's Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment."--Amazon |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Issued in other form | Printed edition: 9783319509495 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Humor. |
| ISBN | 9783319509501 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 3319509500 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1007/978-3-319-50950-1 |
| Stock number | com.springer.onix.9783319509501 Springer Nature |
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